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

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.

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.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

Project: Potential was a separate class that the gifted students went to for an hour each day. The name was supposed to make it exciting, like Code Name: Cursive or Mission: State Capitals.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.

If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

I think every player enjoys praise and I have to work extremely hard on the training ground to bring my game together.

The business of judging a headline AFTER you read the copy is wrong. It takes for granted that everybody reads the copy.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.