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

"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

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

"Half of writing history is hiding the truth"
— 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

"I cannot abide useless people."
— Joss Whedon

"'Sometimes people are layered like that. There’s something totally different underneath than what’s on the surface.'

'And sometimes there’s a third even deeper level and that’s the same as the top surface one.'

'Huh?'

'Like with pie.'"
— Joss Whedon

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."
— William Gibson

"The street finds its own uses for things."
— William Gibson

"Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot."
— William Gibson (Spook Country)

"My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice."
— Amy Sedaris (I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence)

"I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

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— Amy Sedaris

"... I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
— Ray Bradbury