My family has to be very patient living with me, if you're playing a part that's not you. You have to get it right.

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

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

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

The harder you look, the harder you look.

One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel -- the quality of philosophy.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.