A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

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.

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.

Decisions are made by those who show up.

moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fogand i vanish into poetry.

Beauty is great... But love is greater. With it, you can overcome anything fate throws at you.

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

No one will help you when you are left with problems. so plan how to face the crucial situations alone. God doesn't give a problem which you cant solve.

The emotional brain responds to an event more quickly than the thinking brain.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

I'm working as hard as I can to get back to Packer Nation.

Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like? To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.