I think that if I couldn't write, I would be unemployable.

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.

The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.

Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.

Cats strongly believe that everywhere is designed for their comfort!

It was a romantic dream to be a writer. It seemed like a calling.

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God.

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone.