The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can’t walk away from.
Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.
What Sarah brings to the part is her intelligence, at the same time, she’s got that hormonal, idiosyncratic goofiness that makes Buffy not just the Terminator.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance.’
Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.
I am a great believer in found families and I’m not a great believer in blood.
You don’t buy a Picasso because you love the frame.
I’m a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn’t look like there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, he’s going to keep digging, he’s going to keep trying to do right and make up for what’s gone before, just because that’s who he is.
Writers are completely out of touch with reality.
A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
Stay crunchy, even in milk.
There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there’s nothing you can do. She just kills you.
I believe the only reality is how we treat each other. The morality comes from the absence of any grander scheme, not from the presence of any grander scheme.
Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones.
We don’t need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.
I tried to write a TV series, and then I discovered first of all that I love writing more than anything on this earth, and that you could write exactly as well as you want to.
Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot.