Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I have a belief in a narrative that is bigger than me, that is alive and I trust will work itself out.

Stay crunchy, even in milk.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace.

Angelus: Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left? Buffy: Me.

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can't change their minds.

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is always difficult, rare, and fragile. And yet possible.

An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it's going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

The core of my work is dedicated not to pleasing women, but to pleasing men.

Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.