Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

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.

When we talk about our problems, we create more of them. When we talk about solutions and positive responses, we create more solutions and positive responses.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?

It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.

In the future, if nuclear weapons are unleashed there will be no front and no rear.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

We are what our thoughts have made us