Rule 1: The Doctor lies.

Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real.

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

When writing comedy, you have to have the confidence to believe that there is only one type of relationship in the world, and we are all having it, that all men behave in the same way and so do all women.