It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.

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.

I had a tumor. But it was great.

God’s grace gives strength overcome any situation.

A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

Make subtlety obvious.

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.

Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.

Without the possibility of death, adventure is not possible.

One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.