I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

Nothing can ever be a rule in drama, because then you're saying certain things won't ever happen, and that would be very boring.

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

People don't think when they're enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

I think the hardest part about my job is the best part of my job - the travel.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.