I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it.

Wilf: God bless the cactuses! The Doctor: That's cactI. Alien: And that's racist!

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye.

I love having debates with people when they are debates but some people, you just can't. Some people shouldn't be given the oxygen.

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry - a sort of reunion.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him.

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious. They creep up on you sideways, they keep to the shadows, they lurk unrecognized. Then, later, they spring.

I think you run out of 'I love yous

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

The art of the word is painting + architecture + music.