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.

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.

Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

In the case of both Buffy and Firefly , it was almost a case of devising a language,