669 Quotes by 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.

I don’t have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Life’s a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts.

I wish more people would take the extraordinary talent they have and just let their id go because that’s what we discovered. We discovered that the sillier we got, the more people believed that we were speaking from our hearts.

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.

Every time somebody opens their mouth they have an opportunity to do one of two things – connect or divide.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It’s the best.

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.

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.