You are like seven of the strangest women I have ever met.

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.

Love is what remains after the falling in love is gone.

To be ordinary is a choice, for everyone has it in them to become extraordinary.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

The key to getting the most from choice is to be choosy about choosing.

Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth.