"Doubt everything. Find your own light."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

"Don't Panic"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"A learning experience is one of those things that says, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.""
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"What to do if you find yourself stuck with no hope of rescue: Consider yourself lucky that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your present circumstances seems more likely, consider yourself lucky that it won't be troubling you much longer."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"I don't want to die! I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
— Douglas Adams

"One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
— Douglas Adams

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
— Douglas Adams

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
— Douglas Adams

""What happens if I press this button?" -- "I WOULDN'T!"
*DING*
"Oh"
"What happened?"
"A light came on saying, please do not press this button again""
— Douglas Adams

"Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To."
— Douglas Adams

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
— Joss Whedon

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn."
— Joss Whedon

"People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy."
— Joss Whedon

"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. "
— Joss Whedon

"Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing."
— Joss Whedon

"I'll take crazy over stupid any day."
— Joss Whedon

"Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck."
— Joss Whedon

"You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater."
— Joss Whedon

""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." "
— Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"There’s a fine a line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that."
— Joss Whedon

"If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake."
— Joss Whedon

"Half of writing history is hiding the truth"
— Joss Whedon

"Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?"
— Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own."
— Joss Whedon

"You're kidding ... what a crazy random happenstance!"
— Joss Whedon

"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."
— Joss Whedon

"All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now."
— Joss Whedon

"This is the captain we have a little problem with our entry sequence so we may experiance some slight turbulance, then explode."
— Joss Whedon (Serenity Official Visual Companion)

"The world is a mess and I just need to rule it."
— Joss Whedon

"I cannot abide useless people."
— Joss Whedon

"Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE."
— Joss Whedon

"Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!"
— Joss Whedon (Once More with Feeling)

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships-the ones that last-are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship."
— Gillian Anderson

"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that
"
— Gillian Anderson

"Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears"
— Gillian Anderson

"Don't quit before the miracle."
— found on Gillian Anderson's website...

"I truly belive that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us."
— Gillian Anderson

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
— John Lennon

"The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of high school, when they've finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That's okay. I think we've all 'been there, done that.' It all starts with the writing. "
— Robin Hobb

"A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon."
— Robin Hobb

"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead."
— Robin Hobb (Assassin's Apprentice)

"Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?"
— Jeff Lindsay (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)

"Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting."
— Jeff Lindsay (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)

"Feeling - what authentic human fun!"
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)