If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.

Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

Take what you have learned, and move on.

Here you go, she said. I don't need it anymore. I'm very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people's death.