The real problem with all drugs is that they work. Fantastically. They're great, right up until the moment they kill you.

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.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

Everything she does comes from within, from some dark impulse. I guess that’s what makes her so thrilling to watch. So dangerous. Even perfect at times. But also so damned destructive.

Mmmm! Lunch and no cleanup! Can life get better? I submit that it can NOT!

It’s the ultimate pinnacle of stand-up to have an hour on HBO, but way more people see Comedy Central and they’ve been good to me.

All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!

I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.

Little black horse. Where are you taking your dead rider?

Positive and negative emotions cannot occupy the mind at the same time.

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

If you're going to make sense of politics you have to have a historical perspective and also recognise that you have to work with people you don't agree with.