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.

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

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

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 human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

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

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