Joss Whedon

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that__ what life is like, that__ what interests me.

I just thought, __ait a minute, if I__ going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I__e ever been in my life. _ It__ like taking the bar exam at Coachella. It__ like, __m, I really need to concentrate on this! Guys! Can you all just_I have to_It__ super important for my law!

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

Wanna know what a bullet feels like, Warren? A real one? It__ not like in the comics_I think you need to. Feel it_It__ not going to make a neat little hole. First - it__l obliterate your internal organs. Your lung will collapse, feels like drowning_When it finally hits your spine, it__l blow your central nervous system-_I__ talking. The pain will be unbearable, but you won__ be able to move_ A bullet usually travels faster than this, of course. But the dying? It seems like it takes forever. Something, isn__ it? One tiny piece of metal destroys everything. It ripped her insides out_ It took her light away. From me. From the world_ And now the one person who should be here is gone - and a waste like you gets to live. A tiny piece of metal. Can you feel it now?

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.

I hope I__ being clear, I didn__ say I hate feminists, that would be weird. I said I hate feminist. I__ talking about the word.I have the privilege living my life inside of words and part of being a writer is creating entire universes, and that's beautiful, but part of being a writer is also living in the very smallest part of every word....But the word feminist, it doesn't sit with me, it doesn't add up. I want to talk about my problem that I have with it. ...Ist in it's meaning is also a problem for me. Because you can't be born an ist. It's not natural... So feminist includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state. That we don't emerge assuming that everybody in the human race is a human, that the idea of equality is just an idea that's imposed on us. That we are indoctrinated with it, that it's an agenda......My problem with feminist is not the word. It's the question. "Are you now, or have you ever been, a feminist?" The great Katy Perry once said__'m paraphrasing_"I'm not a feminist but I like it when women are strong."...Don't know why she feels the need to say the first part, but listening to the word and thinking about it, I realize I do understand. This question that lies before us is one that should lie behind us. The word is problematic for me because there's another word that we're missing......When you say racist, you are saying that is a negative thing. That is a line that we have crossed. Anything on the side of that line is shameful, is on the wrong side of history. And that is a line that we have crossed in terms of gender but we don't have the word for it......I start thinking about the fact that we have this word when we're thinking about race that says we have evolved beyond something and we don't really have this word for gender. Now you could argue sexism, but I'd say that's a little specific. People feel removed from sexism. __'m not a sexist, but I'm not a feminist.' They think there's this fuzzy middle ground. There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple....You don__ have to hate someone to destroy them. You just have to not get it....My pitch is this word. __enderist._ I would like this word to become the new racist. I would like a word that says there was a shameful past before we realized that all people were created equal. And we are past that. And every evolved human being who is intelligent and educated and compassionate and to say I don't believe that is unacceptable. And Katy Perry won't say, "I'm not a feminist but I like strong women," she'll say, "I'm not a genderist but sometimes I like to dress up pretty." And that'll be fine....This is how we understand society. The word racism didn't end racism, it contextualized it in a way that we still haven't done with this issue. ...I say with gratitude but enormous sadness, we will never not be fighting. And I say to everybody on the other side of that line who believe that women are to be bought and trafficked or ignored...we will never not be fighting. We will go on, we will always work this issue until it doesn't need to be worked anymore....Is this idea of genderist going to do something? I don't know. I don't think that I can change the world. I just want to punch it up a little.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

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.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

Because it__ no longer enough to be a decent person. It__ no longer enough to shake our heads and make concerned grimaces at the news. True enlightened activism is the only thing that can save humanity from itself.

As we all know, blinking lights means science.

Spike: Bloody hell, woman, you're cutting off my circulation!Buffy: You don't have any circulation.Spike: Well, it pinches

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...I've got a theor-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposesThey've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets...