I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

Industry cannot flow unless cpaital is confident, and capital will not be confident as long as it fears that Parliament will meddle with it and walk off with its profits.

An atheist's response to a creationist asking 'what if' there was a God, That would be quite an unsettling thought.

As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor

All right. They’re on our left. They’re on our right. They’re in front of us, they’re behind us. They can’t get away this time’.

Freedom is our birthright.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected