Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

It's certainly easy for me to make a fictional character mad about something. I can get them angry about something that I'm relatively indifferent about, just because I'm not educated on it, if I go to someone who is educated about it and is passionate about it. I find a point of fiction and then give it to them.

Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.