The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

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 can make more friends in two months by being interested in other people than in two years of trying to get people interested in you.

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

It's the things one might have said that fester.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

I used to enjoy the anonymity of being a literary figure and occasionally a public radio figure.

If it's truly a passion and it's truly something you believe in, then you need to do it.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

You are not my nursemaid. Remember, I am rescuing you.

This is a business. Like any other business.