Steven Moffat Quotes

9 quotes

Scottish television writer and producer

“I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.”

"Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people."

on Philosophy

"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."

on Success

"The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles."

on Life

"Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit – without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis."

on Ethics

"We're all stories, in the end."

on Identity

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

on Love

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

on Wisdom

"What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?"

on Joy