“It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.”

“You're guaranteed to be lucky several times in your life-it's what you do with it. Young writers spend all their time worrying, in a way that David Gerrold did not and I did not. How do they get to meet the right people? How do they get to the right parties? If only someone would read my script... Forget all that. All these things are easy and will happen. The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's fucking easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer. That's it-you have to write an absolutely terrific script.”

“It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.”

“The Doctor: It's my nose; it has special powers.Nancy: Yeah? That why it's so...?The Doctor: What?Nancy: Nothing.The Doctor: What?Nancy: Nothing. Do your ears have special powers too?”

“The Doctor: I've seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!”

“See the bowtie? I wear it and I don't care. That's why it's cool.”

“Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics!-The Doctor (Matt Smith)”