“What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.”

“We find what we search for.”

“And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men,not men circumstances.”

“We write because we have to, not because we want to”

“The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.”

“I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.”

“Something about history stirred him. He liked following in its footsteps.”