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.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

There's some great reality TV, and I'm not bagging on it completely.

Men not only don't get what's important about what women are capable of, but in fact they fear it, and envy it, and want to throw stones at it, because it's the thing they can't have.

I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero.

I never tire of the heroes that I knew growing up.