Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

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.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that there is literally no choice at all.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

I had stepped into his arms, showing him my raw, broken heart.

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence.

A second-guesser is one who doesn't know anything about the first guess, and he's one who needs 2 guesses to get one right.