A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

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.

With a ring around the rosaryAnd a pocket full of crossesAshes to ashesThey'll all fall down

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

Take a walk on the wild side.

He who loves others is always loved by them, and he who respects others is always respected by them.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you. Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you.