It wouldn't kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.

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.

Can you be serious for two words?""Not without effort.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

I can't get enough adventure," Magnus said lightly. "And adventure cannot get enough of me.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.

If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed.