As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

I'm not in the service business.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.

What is important is what can be explored throughout Christmas, in the company of your Soul.

It took me a long time to figure out that real big-time success comes from taking lots of small, ordinary steps in the right direction. And you can't ever take the next step until you take the first.

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things 'because we're supposed to.

Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.

If I apply a magnetic pulse on salt water - that's your brains by the way - it'll generate electric currents, and the electric current in the brain can erase a migraine headache.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.