Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

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.

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

Time spent in meditation is as precious as gold.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Any regeneration project that fails to put environmental and social benefits at its very heart is unlikely to achieve anything more than a very short-lived spasm of spurious prosperity

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

I will remain active in judo.