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

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

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

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.

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

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

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.