I can say with pride verging on smugness that I’ve got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.
Maybe I’m in Hell. That’s okay, I’m not scared of Hell – it’s just Heaven for bad people.
There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking, “What was it like?” “Does it hurt?” “Are you still scared?”.
Fear is only a disadvantage if you want to attack-it’s brilliant if all you want to do is run away.
The Doctor: Don’t blink. Don’t even blink. Blink and you’re dead. They are fast. Faster than you can believe. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away. And most of all, don’t blink. Good Luck.
I’ve finally run out of corridor. There’s a life summed up.
Maybe he’ll visit tomorrow,’ she had said, her hand tight on his. ‘Maybe tomorrow,’ he had smiled, closing his eyes. She could never decide, over the years, if those were the best or the saddest last words.
Time travel. One-man time travel, basically. Pop the strap on your wrist, and off you go. Top security rating of any item here – no one can know we have this, not even our allies.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Are you serious? Americans with the ability to rewrite history? You’ve seen their news coverage.
Is there a word for ‘total screaming genius’ that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?
Even the slash fiction, that’s a great way to learn to work. No one really does three-act structure, but just trying to put words that make somebody else turned on, that’s going to teach you more about writing than any writing college you can go to.
Los demonios huyen cuando un hombre bueno va a la guerra.
Don’t be Lasagne – The Doctor.
There isn’t anything that you will ever do in your life that won’t one day be described as over. That cannot tarnish the joy of it. You cannot damage the memory of your greatest days with the regret that they’re over. That’s the wrong way to think.
I said we’re not the same. Here’s why. All my life, every day, I’ve wished I was someone else. I’ve wanted to be Kate, or Sarah Jane Smith, or Amy Pond, or anyone really. But you’re a shape-shifter, you’ve been lots of other people – and you want to be me. I think that makes you a much better Petronella Osgood than I am. I think I’d like to be a better version. If.
Sometimes he missed the monochrome world of his first two incarnations. It had felt like a simpler, cleaner time; so many centuries had passed before he realised he’d just been colour blind.
We all change, when you think about it, we’re all different people; all through our lives, and that’s okay, that’s good, you’ve gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be. I will not forget one line of this, not one day, I swear. I will always remember when the Doctor was me.
Taking your own life. Interesting expression, taking it from who? Once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everyone else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it.
I’m not a psychopath, I’m a high functioning sociopath.
You can only really tell how sad someone is when they smile.
We all face the raven in the end.
Fear is wisdom in the face of danger. It is nothing to be ashamed of.