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.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.

To his surprise he also discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible to be bad at something, whether painting or poetry, that you cared about a great deal.