Never argue with a drunk or a fool.

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.

Pray that your marriage is one in which you both agree & that God will be in the center of it

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

When anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.

My eldest brother Atticus just won an Oscar some years ago, as he wrote the music for The Social Network.

Instead of transcending ourselves, we must move into ourselves.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.