Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

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.

Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.

Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.

We have to say what we believe... whether it's popular or not.

Titles of honor add not to his worth, who is himself an honor of his titles.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

One of the reasons I don't do social media is that I like the feeling that if somebody asks me for a picture on the street, I don't have to say yes.

You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

It bugs me that people think my songs are personal because it means I have to explain myself all the time.

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.