David Milch Quotes

... sufficient conscience to bother him, but not sufficient to keep him straight.

I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I'm not a complete hypocrite.

I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

It was an act of both conscience and cowardice.

'Tis very strange Men should be so fond of being thought wickeder than they are.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.

To carry a false persona is an extra burden. Who needs that?

I was bad, but I was one of the kids that never got caught. If anyone ever knew I did something, it was because I told them. 'Cause I'm a really good liar, so I end up snitching on myself.

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.