Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.

Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Wherever, I am, you will always be in my heart.

In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome of those feelings.

Failure is so much more interesting.

You can never tell how much drive that lies in you until you discover your true passion in life.

There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

When you can despise death, you have conquered all fears.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.