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.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.

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

It is the most fun I’m ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. 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.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

That girl will rain destruction down on you and your ship. She is an albatross, Captain. Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it. (to Inara) Yes, I've read a poem. Try not to faint.

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.