A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.

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.

I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever.

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

It's definitely a shock to go from being 15 in high school to working. There's no real cushion there. There's no preparation at all. You learn by doing.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.

Workouts are like brushing my teeth; I don't think about them, I just do them. The decision has already been made.

As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.

Just because suddenly you have a sabbatical doesn't mean that the writing occasion comes to you.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.