If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

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.

And where love ends, hate begins

If you cannot see it, you will not be it

You don't have to let his definition of success be yours

When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Your heart is pure, your soul is free. Be on your way, don't wait for me.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

Life is too short not to experiment.

It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.