[The Doctor, Capt. Jack and Rose are cornered by the empty children.] The Doctor: Go to your room! Go to your room! I mean it. I'm very, very angry with you. I'm very, very cross! GO! TO! YOUR! ROOM! [The children lurch away and obey him.] I'm really glad that worked. Those would have been terrible last words.

You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful — and then you actually talk with them, and five minutes later they're as dull as a brick. But then there's other people, and you meet them and you think: "Not bad, they're okay," and then you get to know them, and their face sort of becomes them, like their personality's written all over it; and they just — and they turn into something so beautiful.

Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

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

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

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

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.