Interviews

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

– Frank Herbert

Darmok and Jalad at Tinagra.

– Star Trek: The Next Generation

Seize the time... Live now. Make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again.

– Picard - Star Trek: The Next Generation

They should know that they are unique. That nothing like them has ever been, or ever will be again.

– Jerry Worsham

Allons-y!

– The Tenth Doctor - Doctor Who

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

– The Tenth Doctor - Doctor Who

...What's the point in them being happy now if they're going to be sad later? The answer is, of course, because they are going to be sad later.

– The Eleventh Doctor - Doctor Who

Idris: I've been looking for a word. A big, complicated word, but so sad. I've found it now.

The Doctor: [whispers] What word?

Idris: Alive. I'm alive!

– Doctor Who

No self-respecting woman will ever let a naked man in socks do the squelchy with her.

– Jeff - Coupling

Craig: Has anyone ever told you that you're a bit weird?

The Doctor: They never really stop.

– Doctor Who

Dalek: Records indicate you will show mercy. You are an associate of the Doctor.

River Song: I'm River Song. Check your records again.

– Doctor Who

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

– Doctor Who

I can run away from anything I like. Time is not the boss of me.

– The Eleventh Doctor - Doctor Who

Do you know what would be the best way to wipe out all of human kind?... Make all women telepathic because if they suddenly found out about the kind of stuff that goes on in our heads they'd kill us all on the spot. Men are not people. We are disgustoids in human form!

– Jeff - Coupling

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

-Mindy Kaling

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[The Guide] says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"Come on," he droned, "I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."  Martin said.

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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"Life," said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

-Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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He gazed keenly into the distance and looked as if he would quite like the wind to blow his hair back dramatically at that point, but the wind was busy fooling around with some leaves a little way off.

-Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything

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The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying "And another thing..." twenty minutes after admitting he's lost the argument.

- Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

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