"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."

“As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Doctor". TV Series "Doctor Who", (1.3, "The Edge of Destruction"), 8 February - 15 February, 1964.

“Both my mother and I have close groups of friends that include other writers, and these friendships are very important to us.”

“I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.”

“Defect-free software does not exist.”

“You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.”

Source : "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008.

“If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.”

“You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.”

“I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.”