It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.

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.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

A new day is a new beginning, a new life to live!

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

A good huntress respected her partners instincts, even if he was socially ignorant.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

A risk is something that feels risky to the person who's taking it.

The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?