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

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Madness is just what a genius looks like to a tiny mind.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

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

Everybody knows that everybody dies. But not every day. Not today. Some days are special. Some days are so, so blessed. Some days, nobody dies at all. Now and then, every once in a very long while, every day in a million days, when the wind stands fair and the Doctor comes to call, everybody lives.

I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.