An accent has to do with the way your mouth works and the sounds that come out of your head, but somehow it informs everything about you.

I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

If you speak in a different accent, you begin to move in a slightly different way. You think in a slightly different way. It's part of trying to find what makes a character.

To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.

I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.

Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.

It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.

How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.

If you do not manage power, it will burn you.

Somewhere between right and wrong lies a garden surrounded by thorns, and I have met you there.

Wanting less is probably a better blessing than having more.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

For myself, the Creek satisfies a thing that had gone hungry and unfed since childhood days. I am often lonely. Who is not? But I should be lonelier in the heart of a city.

There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.