I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

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.

Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.