Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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.

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.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

I'm not in the service business.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.

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.