All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

Nice characters are boring!

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied. The remedy is a lot of science, well applied.

With love, we can save every soul from self-destruction.

That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Its impossible to go onto the Tardis set and not play with things and fiddle with dials.

If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.