We're only as good as the promises we keep.
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Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley (born c. 1967) is an American television writer and producer, screenwriter, and bestselling author, best known for creating and writing the FX television series Fargo (2014-) and Legion (2017-). Hawley earlier worked on the television series Bones (2005–2008), The Unusuals (2009) and My Generation (2010). 2Early life Hawley was born and raised in New York City, New York. His mother, Louise Armstrong, was a non-fiction writer and activist, and his maternal grandmother was a playwright. His father, Tom Hawley, was a businessman. He has a twin brother, Alexi, who is a writer for the television show The Following and the creator of State of Affairs. Hawley graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in political science in 1989. He worked for Legal Aid Society in New York City, dealing with cases involving child abuse and neglect. He later moved to San Francisco and did computer programming work at law firms and worked as a paralegal. 2Career 3Books He has published five novels: A Conspiracy of Tall Men (1998), Other People's Weddings (2004), The Punch (2008), The Good Father (2012), and Before the Fall (2016
Well, I'm saying that the Romans raised by wolves, they see a guy turning water into wine, what do they do? They eat him. 'Cause there are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.
You're gonna think it's funny, but I always wanted to work for the post office. And be a mailman. I like that you get to see the same people every day. Bring 'em that check they've been waiting for. Presents for Christmas. You know, be part of the community.
Once upon a time, there was a little boy. He was born in a field and raised in the woods. And he had nothing. In the winter the boy would freeze and in the summer he would boil. He knew the name of every stinging insect. At night he would look at the lights in the houses, and he would want. Why was…
Lester Nygaard: You have gotta stand by me here. Chaz Nygaard: You've been a burden my whole life. I'm done. There's something wrong with you, Lester. There's—there's something missing. You're not right in the world.
I watched a bear once. His leg was in a steel trap. It chewed through bloody bone to get free. It was in Alaska. Died about an hour later facedown in a stream. But it was on his own terms, you know? You got close. Closer than anybody else. I don't know if it was you or your partner, but look. If you…
You know, you can go through your whole life without a care, and one day it all changes. People die. They lose their homes. They go to prison. It's calamity, huh? I know it, 'cause I lived it. And if this year has taught me anything—and believe me, I've seen it all—it's that the worst does happen.…
Of course no one hangs the sad pictures. Am I right? Mom crying and dad looking angry. Kid with a black eye.
Burt Canton: She stopped putting it in her mouth soon as the ring went on her finger. Lorne Malvo: Well, that's a national tragedy, Burt.
I used to have positive opinions about the world, you know, about people. Used to think the best. Now I'm looking over my shoulder. An unquiet mind, that's what the wife calls it. The job has got me staring into the fireplace, drinking. I never wanted to be the type to think big thoughts about the…
Gus Grimly: They're gonna give me a citation for bravery. Greta Grimly: You? Come on, you're afraid of spiders. Gus Grimly: Buzz Aldrin was afraid of spiders, and he went into space.
Lou Solverson: It's a diner robbery in Minnesota, Karl. Not a presidential assassination. Karl Weathers: Oh, sure. That's how it starts—with something small, like a break-in at the Watergate Hotel. But just watch. This thing's only getting bigger.
Dodd Gerhardt: You got till tomorrow to bring the collection money you owe. Rye Gerhardt: Or what? Dodd Gerhardt: You make me wait for you again, I'll cleave your skull.
Rye Gerhardt: I'm a man. Dodd Gerhardt: You're the comic in a piece of bubble gum!
Bear Gerhardt: There's gonna be a reckoning one day, brother. All souls are called to account for their actions. In the end, we all get what we deserve. Dodd Gerhardt: You keep telling yourself that.
She was a true gloom, my mother. We used to eat in the dark. For a laugh, I wrote on her tombstone, 'Here lies Barbara Milligan, happy till the end.' Me, on the other hand, I'm an optimist.
Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke. Ed Blomquist: So what, you just—you just give up? Noreen Vanderslice: You could kill yourself, get it over with.