“Miami drivers have long ago take the simple chore of going from one place to another and turned it into a kind of high-speed, heavily armed game of high-stakes bumper cars.”
“Okay, consider this. Say you’re going to go on a long journey with someone by car. And the two of you will take turns driving. Which type of person would you choose? One who’s a good driver, but inattentive, or an attentive person who’s not such a good driver?”
“Apparently the Time Lords have a long and honourable tradition of genocide when they think the stakes are high enough”
“My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.”
“It is almost another kind of love, being loved. It is the same heat but from another room; it is the same sound but from a high window...”
“high achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectations.”