That's a very real feeling - that I don't have a story to tell. I'm not a pure storyteller. I have a tough time with story.

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.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

You can't improve anything if you don't first know what needs to be improved.

Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after

Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it.

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.