Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.

The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says it to his wife. ‘The world is always ending for someone,’ he says. She is trying to quieten the baby, and does not hear him. I doubt that it would matter if she did.

So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

Diana used to tell me she had a travel jinx, something I only really started to believe when the plane door fell off.

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.