I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

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.

Be grateful. You have enough and abundant life

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with

Some kids also think it makes them coolWhen they pick on other kids, being cruel.

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

I'm oddly not competitive. What I love about show business is there is a home for everyone.

I love you baby goodnight. There goes my life

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.