Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Be not afraid of greatness: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Let life be short; else shame will be too long.

This above all: to thine ownself be true. And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

Certain, men should be what they seem.

All that glisters is not gold.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Time travels in diverse paces with diverse persons. I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.

My poems tend to have rhetorical structures; what I mean by that is they tend to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. There tends to be an opening, as if you were reading the opening chapter of a novel. They sound like I'm initiating something, or I'm making a move.

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

L.A. is cool. If I could have the rest of my family out there, I think it would make it that much better for me. As far as work and the weather, you can't really beat it. I just wish they had the New York social life out there. That would make it perfect.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence.

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

I feel that if I'm going through something, I'm sure someone else is, too. I try to be as honest with myself and others as I can be.

I've never known how to read music in my life.

It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.

Its always difficult to keep Fridays confined within themselves..they tend to spill over..

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible version. I spend stupid amounts of money because I'm usually buying my books in at least two formats.

In order for the light to shine so brightly the darkness must be present.

Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

One of the nicest things I ever read about our show was that a critic felt 'Boardwalk Empire' could be the beginning of the blur between television and cinema, because the production values are so high and the storytelling is so compelling.

Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.

I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.