I was never really happy until I became 'Doctor Who'.
I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.
. . . you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.
. . . the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.
What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.
The one who learns and learns and doesn't practice is like the one who plows and plows and never plants.
Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.
Of course [I believe in aliens]. Are you so arrogant as to believe we are alone in this universe?
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.