I was called a misogynist because I was reducing women to mothers. 'Reducing women to mothers' – now there is possibly the most anti-women statement I've heard.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?' Doctor: 'Lots of planets have a north!

We have a plan to top it. And I do think our plan is devastating. We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears telling them the plan … we’re probably more excited that we’ve ever been about Sherlock.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.