Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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.

The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game

Jon Bolton is the neocon's neocon. He was a hawk straight down the line. He wanted to bomb Iran five, six years ago before the Donald Trump election!

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.

Each state enjoys sovereign power.

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

I have always wanted my colors to sing.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.