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

— Steven Moffat

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

— Steven Moffat

Is there a word for 'total screaming genius' that sounds modest and a tiny bit sexy?

— Steven Moffat

Madame Ovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.

— Steven Moffat

Madge: I don't know why I keep shouting at them. The Doctor: Because every time you see them happy you remember how sad they're going to be. And it breaks your heart. Because 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 Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe

— Steven Moffat

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

— Steven Moffat

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

— 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 wobbly wobbly... time-y Lima... stuff.

— Steven Moffat

The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling up the map of Europe. Country after country, falling like dominoes. Nothing can stop it, nothing. Until one tiny, damp little island says "No. No, not here." A mouse in front of a lion. You're amazing, the lot of you. I don't know what you do to Hitler, but you frighten the hell out of me.

— Steven Moffat

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

— Steven Moffat