If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.

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.

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.

Women are just beginning to see that there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

At the end of your life, you're lucky if you die.

I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.