“Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.”

“The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.”

“Centuries of travel yore suggest that when we no longer know where to turn, our real journey has just begun.”

“Oh. THere goes another one. Just like Achilles.”

“The philosopher Sir James Mackintosh had said that the powers of a man's mind were proportionate to the quantity of coffee he drank, and Voltaire had knocked back fifty cups of it a day, so Ianto reckoned there had to be something in it. And saving Cardiff from the kinds of things that came through the Rift called for quick, inspired thinking, so Ianto took it upon himself to make sure the coffee was good. Ianto Jones, saving the world with a dark roast.”

“Coming out of a dream or a book, the real world is such a deceptive and essentially miserable place.”

“When it comes to open flame, you're never as 'far enough back' as you think you are.”