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

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

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

I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

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.

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

I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.

I'm not in the service business.

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

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.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Sachin Tendulkar the best yesterday, today and forever

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones.

Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Pray. Trust God. Enjoy life. Don't let the little things get you down.

I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.