I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue. But when I'm writing, the way the words sound is as important to me as what they mean.

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.

Choose those you give your trust to carefully. Be caring

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Thorough preparation must lead to success. Neglect nothing.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.

His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

We look for visions of heaven and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us.