The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

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?

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

There are plenty of towns in America where the 4-year-old has shot his 2-year-old sister by using daddy's gun.

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine.