Martin: You wonder ever if you're a bad man?
Rust: No I don't wonder Marty. The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door.

People... I have seen the finale of thousands of lives man. Young, old, each one was so sure of their realness. That their sensory experience constituted a unique individual. Purpose, meaning. So certain that they were more than a biological puppet. Truth wills out, everybody sees once the strings are cut off all down.

Rust

Just gotta look a man in his eyes. It's all there. Everybody wears their hunger and their haunt you know? Just gotta be honest about what can go on up here. The locked room.

Rust

Martin:You know the real difference between you and me?
Rust:Yup, denial.
Martin: The difference is that I know the difference between an idea and a fact. You are incapable of admitting doubt. Now that sounds like denial to me.
Rust: I doubt that.

What's it say about life hm? You gotta get together, tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe, just to get through the goddamn day? Nah. What's that say about your reality Marty?

Rust

Martin: I mean can you imagine if people didn't believe? All the things they'd get up to?
Rust: Exact same thing they do now, just out in the open.

Your fuckin' attitude. Not everybody wants to sit alone in an empty room beatin' off to murder manuals. Some folks enjoy community. Common good.

Marty

True Detective Season 1 Episode 3 Quotes

Martin: I mean can you imagine if people didn't believe? All the things they'd get up to?
Rust: Exact same thing they do now, just out in the open.

Your fuckin' attitude. Not everybody wants to sit alone in an empty room beatin' off to murder manuals. Some folks enjoy community. Common good.

Marty