I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.

It's not any huge secret that I'm an atheist.

People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

This is something that I do consider to be good advice: I took my first paycheck and I put it in the goddamn bank. Then I took my second paycheck and put it in the goddamn bank. I had seen the roller coaster of my father's career - top of the world, then unemployed - and I never wanted to take a job because I needed money.