Only criminals and adulterers should have to hide who they are.

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 believe God lets us stumble along, slowly finding our way, and giving us chances to pick each other up.

Maybe the Good Friday story is about how God would rather die than be in our sin-accounting business anymore.

I have laid sorrow to sleep;Love sleeps.She who oft made me weepNow weeps.

It's the worst thing to fall in love with someone who will never stop disappointing you.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

Having a baby takes so much from you. It's the most glorious thing you'll ever do, but the aftermath is not so glorious!

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.

There is a great beauty in little things.

It looked incredibly credible!

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.