There are no Asian movie stars

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.

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...

Hardships lead to strength of character.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.