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If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

I love airports because funny things always happen at them. They're giant complexes full of urgency, seriousness, and confusion. Where am I supposed to be? Which way do I go? And that's just the staff.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of Time and Space

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed cos he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came.

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush speak.

If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

Glenn must think he's still in space. He's orbiting the issues faster than he orbited earth.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.