My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.

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 did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.

The economy is in trouble, schools are in trouble, and people have been leaving the city in droves for a long, long time.

I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen!

Should have dogs before they have kids. Everybody.

What does perfection look like to me? Championship rings

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

A fluent trumpeter with a bright tone and a forward-looking style.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.