Being brave doesn't mean you aren't scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.