62 Quotes by David milch

Announcing your plans is a good way to hear god laugh

Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin.

And if God were trying to reach out to us, and teach us something about the deepest nature of matter, he might use some drugged-out surfers.

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you’re not writing.

The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that regard, this is the lie I’m telling myself so I don’t set fire to anything.

Every man’s entitled to hope.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.

Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time.