Nic Pizzolatto

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

When it worked, reading could take away the burden of time.

We come here to tell stories so that we can manage the past without being swallowed by it.

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.

Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better.

You’re here because it’s somewhere. Dogs pant in the streets. Beer won’t stay cold. The last new song you liked came out a long, long time ago, and the radio never plays it anymore.

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.

There’s no getting out alive, but you hope to avoid a deadline.