I want to convey that I'm crazy about the Kardashians - but I'm not sure which is which.

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.

Write about the beauty of rainbows and the glint of reflected light that can enlighten readers' minds.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

A residual sea of symbols which is shared by all mankind, usually accessed through dreams or altered states, and from which cultures draw images on which to found their religions.

Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

Always think in terms of what the other person wants.

Compromise is an imperfect act.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.