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.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

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.

My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart. If I can break your heart and cause your awareness to expand to include another person's experience, even a fictional person's experience, and to inhabit for a moment their sorrow and suffering, then I think it expands us as people.

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.