Life is like the rungs on a ladder. The reason they are placed so close together is that we can learn to take baby steps and reach our destinations safely.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

Precious moments are small elements of time, we show and share love and kindness, with those we care about.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?