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.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

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

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

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a profit, and no artist is less in charge of how their work is presented than an actor, the appeal of Vince was that within a great naturalism, he can convey fierce intelligence, complex emotion, and a real warmth married to a real edge, strength and vulnerability and danger and humor. There are essential contradictions at work that makes him fascinating to watch.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.