Steven Moffat

Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit _ without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis.

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says "No. No, not here." A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing, the lot of you. I don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me.

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

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 on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldn't - that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself.

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

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.

The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes__ery rarely__mpossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

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

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

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.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

Brainy's the new sexy.

There are two events in everybody__ life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we__e asking, __hat was it like?_ __oes it hurt?_ __re you still scared?_.

Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they didn__ give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn__ give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help and they didn__ give him a superpower or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart. And that__ extraordinary. There will never come a time when we don__ need a hero like the doctor.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.Night will fall and drown the sun,When a good man goes to war.Friendship dies and true love lies,Night will fall and the dark will rise,When a good man goes to war.Demons run, but count the cost.The battle's won but the child is lost.