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.

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.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option.

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

Just to clarify the division of labor on the show, I write the show and Alan [Poul] does everything else.