The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

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.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

She says she glories in being abandoned

Most of the funeral stuff is going to be done during daylight hours, ” I said. “I’m not even going to be able to attend the burial. Humans get upset when vampires burst into flames right next to them.

Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give you a movie that looks gigantic.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

I think my idea of a perfect romance is when two people really belong to each other.

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Bad herdsmen waste the flocks which thou hast left behind.

Redheaded women buck like goats.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.