This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up.

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.

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

We sometimes need adversity to fathom our true depths.

I never read in bed, only in my study.

It's a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model. It's just sad.