I sat with my feet up on my desk and started to make a mental list of the people who’d want me dead. Once I got to fifty, I decided this wasn’t helping.

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?

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

The Master: Where’s the TARDIS?The Doctor: Just stop. Just think.The Master: Kill him! I need that technology, Doctor. Tell me where it is or the old man is dead.Wilfred: Don’t tell him!The Master: I’ll kill...

I do think there’s always a way to put things right. If I didn’t believe that I wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn’t eat breakfast; I wouldn’t leave the TARDIS ever....

The Doctor: Oh, now what’s this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That’s what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time…...

He took her by the hand and led her out of the control room and into a little side room. There, amid a lot of sculpting paraphernalia, was her statue. The statue from the museum....

I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes ‘empowered’ for ‘strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with

Yes, he likes Alphie. Though he prefers Stormegedan Dark Ruler of all

He seemed as oblivious to it as he probably was to the meaning of the word.

Amy: “Can I come?”Doctor: “Not safe in here, not yet. Five minutes. Give me five minutes and I’ll be right back.”Amy: “People always say that.”Doctor: “Am I people?…Do I even look like people?…Trust me, I’m...

Rose: Who are you then? Who’s that lot down there? [The Doctor ignores her] I said who are they?!The Doctor: They’re made of plastic. Living plastic creatures. They’re being controlled by a relay device on...

He thought for a second, then spun to Clara. ‘Did you say something cruel to the TARDIS while I was getting changed?”No! Of course not!”Did you call her fat?”What?”Because she’s not fat. She’s just bigger...

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...

The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up.Amelia: You’re soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said...

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

Rory stood up with some difficulty, the chair still tied to him. He leaned over me [Maria] and managed to pull my ropes free. Then he turned to Dr Bloom.’We’re escaping,’ he said. ‘Goodbye.’Chair still...

I’m pretty good with a screwdriver. I don’t mean the drink, though actually, now I come to think of it…

I know that David Tennant’s Hamlet isn’t till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early,...

Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn’t give...

Tea! That’s all I needed! Good cup of tea! Super-heated infusion of free-radicals and tannin, just the thing for healing the synapses.

One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I...

Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good...

Leela: Why are we listening to them? It is a waste of time.The Doctor; It is difficult to know what will be a waste of time until after the time has been wasted, by which...

How are you, Rory?’ [the Doctor] asked.I [Rory]… answered him. ‘It’s been odd being you.”Isn’t it?’ The Doctor’s smile didn’t quite reach his eyes.’How do you cope?”Ah…’ The Doctor picked away at a scrap of...

There’s an emergency link to the defence grid, but that’s only for use in the direst emergencies.” “And of course a mile-long unknown intruder approaching your main source of power isn’t an emergency?” Karan hesitated,...

I am Melody Malone, with ice in my heart and a kiss on my lips. In the city that never sleeps and should never blink, mysteries are my business.

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.

In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you’d need a whole universe to contain her in. The only...

The Master: Fifty seconds and counting.The Doctor: To what?The Master: Oh ho ho. You’re gonna love this.The Doctor: What is it? Hypnotism? Mind control? You’re grafting your thoughts inside them. Is that it?The Master: Oh...

CLARA: Kid’s day out. Getting us off the planet alive. Whatever you were doing with the Cybermen. Good night. See you next Wednesday.DOCTOR: Well, a Wednesday, definitely. Next Wednesday, last Wednesday(Clara leaves.)DOCTOR: One of the...

River Song: Use the stabilisers! The Doctor: It doesn’t have stabilisers! River Song: The blue switches! The Doctor: The blue ones don’t do anything, they’re just… blue! River Song: Yes they’re blue: they’re the blue...