In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

— Joss Whedon

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. Furthermore, I mean, there’s nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I’m so very bad at it. It’s the greatest peace when I’m in a scene, and it’s just me and the character, that’s it, that’s where I want to live my life.

— Joss Whedon

It may not feel too classy, begging just to eat But you know who does that? Lassie, and she always gets a treat So you wonder what your part is Because you're homeless and depressed But home is where the heart is So your real home's in your chest Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got villains they must face They're not as cool as mine But folks you know it's fine to know your place Everyone's a hero in their own way In their own not-that-heroic way So I thank my girlfriend Penny Yeah, we totally had sex She showed me there are so many different muscles I can flex There are the deltoids of compassion, There's the abs of being kind It's not enough to bash in heads You've got to bash in minds Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's got something they can do Get up go out and fly Especially that guy, he smells like poo Everyone's a hero in their own way You and you and mostly me and you'm poverty's new sheriff And I'm bashing in the slums A hero doesn't care if you're a bunch of scary alcoholic bums Everybody! Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone can blaze a hero's trail Don't worry if it's hard If you're not a frigging 'hard you will prevail Everyone's a hero in their own way Everyone's a hero in their...

— Joss Whedon

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There are plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.

— Joss Whedon

It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.

— Joss Whedon

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies... I've got a their-Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes They've got them happy legs and twitchy little noses. And what's with all the carrots-? What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!...or maybe midgets...

— Joss Whedon

I walk. I talk. Furthermore, I shop. Furthermore, I sneeze. Furthermore, I'm going to be a fireman when the floods roll back. There are trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

— Joss Whedon

I was always an early-morning or late-night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning, you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

— Joss Whedon

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

— Joss Whedon

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. Furthermore, I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

— Joss Whedon