She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

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.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do...

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Don't decide yet, " Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.

No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.

I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.