Quote by Joss Whedon (b. 1964)

• The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.

• Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

• 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.

• Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

• The hero says there is good in me and there is bad in me. I have to suppress the bad and magnify the good. The villain says there is only good in me.

• I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.