Quotes from Noah Hawley

She felt like a ghost lying under him, watching him work, as if he were making love to her shadow..

What is history if not a mass grave filled with the bodies of followers of Special Men? Maybe averageness and blandness is what we need right now.

God is unhappy. You should know that. He created us to love each other, to be the miracle, not to swipe right.

was the idyllic fantasy of Europeans fed up with the world they had. They saw this new Garden of Eden as a gift from God. One that offered escape from the problems that plagued them—hopelessness, debt, religious oppression. Escape too from the responsibility of rebuilding a system that was fundamentally flawed. Flee, don't fix.

Sitting in the back of a cab, Scott pictures the boy eating cereal in front of the tv late at night - unable to sleep - watching a dog drawn from letters d-o-g talk to a cat drawn from the letters c-a-t. If only real life were that simple, where everyone we met and every place we went was fashioned from the pure essence of its identity. Where you looked at a man and saw the letters f-r-i-e-n-d, and looked at a woman and saw the word w-i-f-e.

Death, so permanent for the dead, should be more than just an afternoon activity for the mourners.

And yet, in the words of Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

You remember. And so Us against Them became the world. But the more fear is used to motivate people, the more afraid they will become, the more fear will come to define their lives.

In times of turmoil some people turn to magic, others to math.

rather than raising us, their children, from a place of love, they raised us in fear. Doesn't it stand to reason that their fear would shape the adults we become? Anxious, plagued by a constant sense that something, everything, is wrong. Their fear has crippled us, and our inability to function only feeds our anxiety. We are failing at life. So now all we are is failure.

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm.

And irony without humor is violence.

The things Sarah called problems were wholly elective eg no first class seats, a leaking sailboat

Anyone who has ever stood at a great height and felt the impulse to jump recognizes the draw. And what is adolescence if not a great height from which we are all expected to jump?

nobody goes to war hoping for a tie.

Los Angeles is a city that appears to have been built to satisfy somebody's desire for a cigarette.

Layla draws on her electronic cigarette. This is what the future looks like, Scott thinks. We smoke technology now.

At home the children complained because I kept the thermostat at seventy-two degrees.

Nothing meaning the absence of tangible threats—no gun to her head, no knife to her throat—and yet what is poverty if not a threat? What is being called that word or followed down the street by packs of boys if not a threat?

The only thing that can change who we are is life.

He wrote, 'Our Government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from the corruption of everyday objects, spaces.

His job is to communicate information and ideas, and how is he supposed to do that when language itself has become meaningless?

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.