254 Quotes by Steven Moffat

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff.

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.

This was supposed to be yesterday. I was sitting on the Cardiff/London train, supposedly about to write this very column, and realising something quite terrible. My head was entirely empty. A vast echoing void. Bigger on the inside, but with nothing in it. You could drop a pebble in my brain and wait for an hour to hear it land. No actually, you couldn't - that would be aggressive and unhelpful, so keep your damn pebbles to yourself.

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger.Clara: Really?The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.

There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking, “What was it like?” “Does it hurt?” “Are you still scared?”.