Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

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.

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.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

It will always be foolish to ask a cheater if they would ever cheat on you.

Choose to love. Every time you choose to love instead of withdrawing in hurt you build a bridge instead of building a wall.

Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

And remember people: you might not be plastic, but you are fantastic!

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Women's weapons, water-drops.

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live But in a dream of friendship, To have his pomp and all what state compounds But only painted, like his varnished friends?