I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.

An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

You are only Invulnerable when you are in Fear

Every man carries his own past with him, " Hayt said.

For us in the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.

[I] grew up as a disciple of science. I know its fascination. I have felt the godlike power man derives from his machines.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.