HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

The world is divided between kids who grow up wanting to be their parents and those like us, who grow up wanting to be anything but. Neither group ever succeeds.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears.

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component.

The line of gray along the horizon is brighter now, and with the coming light I feel a certainty: that there is, despite our wild imaginings, only one life. The ghostly others, no matter how real they seem, no matter how badly we need them, are phantoms. The one life we're left with is sufficient to fill and refill our imperfect hearts with joy, and then to shatter them. And it never, ever lets up.