It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

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.

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.

Endless faith, Infinite hope.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

I want to rethink surrender as an active verb.

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

Orphan Black is the new black.

I don't know if there's a lot of patience anymore. I think that could serve a lot of people.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

God is pure, and the same to all.