Quotes by Steven Moffat

When you run with the Doctor, it feels like itll never end. But however hard you try you cant run forever. Everybody knows that everybody dies and nobody knows it like the Doctor. But I do think that all the skies of all the worlds might just turn dark if he ever for one moment, accepts it. Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. (In the library, the Doctor walks back to the TARDIS. He stops, looking at the doors. Then he raises his hand, and stands there poised like that for a long moment. Finally he snaps his fingers. The doors open. He smiles slowly and walks in, joining Donna. Then he snaps his fingers again, and the doors close. Rivers voice continues over this.) Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair, and the Doctor comes to call... everybody lives.

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And thats the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

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

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - its more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite terrible. My head was entirely empty. A vast echoing void. Bigger on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldnt - that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself.

Whats the point of being a grown-up if you dont get to be immature?

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

The Doctor: Ive seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? Its massive!

Come on, Rory! It isnt rocket science, its just quantum physics!-The Doctor (Matt Smith)

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says No. No, not here. A mouse in front of a lion. Youre amazing, the lot of you. I dont know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me.

Id forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

Madge: I dont know why I keep shouting at them.The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad theyre going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because whats the point in them being happy now if theyre going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.~ The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

Well weve moved through the funfair a bit - weve done the rollercoaster, now were on the ghost train.

Clara Oswald: This is just a dream, but very clever people can hear dreams. So please, just listen. I know youre afraid, but being afraid is all right, because didnt anybody ever tell you fear is a superpower? Fear can make you faster and cleverer and stronger. And one day, youll come back to this barn and on that day youre going to be very afraid indeed. But thats ok because if youre very wise and very strong, fear doesnt have to make you cruel or cowardly. Fear can make you kind. It doesnt matter if theres nothing under the bed or in the dark, so long as you know its ok to be afraid of it. Youre always going to be afraid, even if you learn to hide it. Fear is like a companion, a constant companion, always there. But thats ok, because fear can bring us together. Fear can bring you home. Im going to leave you with something just so you always remember: Fear makes companions of us all. -Listen, Doctor Who, episode 8.4

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.The Doctor: Good men dont need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

Were all stories, in the end.

Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad theyre going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because whats the point in them being happy now if theyre going to be sad later. The answer is, of course, because they a re going to be sad later.