I'm terribly afraid of failure. When your identity is wrapped up in writing and you've written something that doesn't work, it's a tough pill to swallow.

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.

Your sweet thank-you touches my heart, take my breath away, my only love. This day is only I have got.

Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don’t have feelings.

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful.

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.

Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.