Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

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.

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

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.

The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something.

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 don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.