Quotes from Gareth Roberts

Lilith: Oh, but your heart grows cold. A north wind blows and carries down the distant... Rose? The Doctor: Oooh, big mistake! Because that name keeps me fighting!

At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks.

To avoid detection, the Doctor had attached a device called Randomiser to his TARDIS, his plan being to outfox the Black Guardian by popping up randomly all over the place. Neither Romana nor K-9 had the heart to tell the Doctor that that was pretty much what he did anyway.

The more the merrier. Too many cooks spoil the broth of destruction.

Suddenly the Doctor heard the greatest sound in the universe, more delightful than the dawn chorus, more lovely than the laughter of children, more sweet than the mountain stream. It was the wheezing, groaning sound of the relative dimensional stabiliser of a Type 40 TARDIS in materialisation mode.

The universe is full of wonderful things, amazing opportunities. And you have to grab them with both hands and hope they never and.

Rose, the moon is incredible. Everything down on Earth relies on it. Rats jump for it. Tides rush out from it. Humans kiss under it. Without it there'd be nothing down there worth the light. And that just happened by chance -trillions of odd against it- one bit of stardust meets another bit of dust.

Chris reflected that a horrific place like this, with all the odds so grotesquely stacked against him, was where the Doctor magnificently belonged.

Obviously it was meant to tell us nothing, which is exactly the opposite function of a book.

I need you, Doctor, but Rose - she's just another human. Wasteful, aggressive, untidy..." The Doctor bit his lip. "Harm one hair of her head and I'll destroy you.

More than just the ship,' said the Doctor. He indicated the burnt ends of the tangled fibres. 'There was enough thermal energy generated by that thing to destroy an entire planet.' 'He was going to wipe out Cambridge?' Chris was horror-struck. 'All the colleges? The Backs, the railway station… the pubs?' 'Plus the entire planet,' said the Doctor gravely.

What book, Professor?' demanded the Doctor. 'An Earth classic, by one of the greatest writers in that planet's history,' said the Professor. 'Terribly funny, terribly thoughtful, wish I could remember the name of it, something about thumbing a lift, and there were towels in it, I remember that, yes, let me think – oh yes, of course, it's called The Hitch—