Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.

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.

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

Associating with the wise and the knowledgeable people adds to the prestige of a person.

We must at last put a stop to having people move into their quarters like chickens and rabbits into their coops.

I want to be dictator.

I love you, Michael Wagner.” “Forever?” he asked. “Forever,” I said.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

You've got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.