When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

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.

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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.

Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.

It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.

Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.

I like music that is really pure and honest. For me, acoustic music, like a piece played on the piano, is very personal.