Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

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.

Smile in such a nice way that you introduce yourself.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

being is one day and a million nights. the blood on the glass, blood lust with the sun holding. the universe beats for the lost and found. with you.

For one entire day I let his kiss burn on my cheek and into my blood and I don't push the memory away... This kiss, these words, they feel like beginning.

If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young.

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

We worship education but hate learning.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!