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

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.

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

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

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.

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'