Quotes from Steven Moffat

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment.

I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

It's been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it's time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.

I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humour rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it - I wouldn't know how to do jokes without the story.

When you're surrounded by friends and exes, there's a whole lot of stuff that starts crawling out. But however serious and traumatic those experiences may be to the participant, to the onlooker they're hilarious.

Cinema is so slow and boring compared to television.

I can say with pride verging on smugness that I've got two very successful shows that assume their audience is very smart.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think they're lying to make you feel better?' Amelia: 'Yeah...' The Doctor: 'Everything's going to be fine.

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

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

We're all stories, in the end.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

The Doctor: Don't blink. Don't even blink. Blink and you're dead. Don't turn your back. Don't look away. And don't blink.