I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

Courage is the vision that lets us see ourselves in the mirror of our fears.

The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them--when they feel understood by you--that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

Failures are in the positions they are in today because they are yet to follow the footprints of those who walk, think, and breathe success.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family