I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writers ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

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