Ray Velcoro quotes from True Detective

Ray Velcoro

I used - I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don't even go to the moon anymore.

Ray Velcoro

Sometimes, a good beating provokes personal growth.

Ray Velcoro

[about e-cigarettes] I tried one of those once. Felt like it was smoking me. Maybe it’s just a little too close to sucking a robot’s dick. I dunno.

Ray Velcoro

Pain is inexhaustible. It's only people that get exhausted.

Ray Velcoro

My powers of influence are so meager in this sublunar world of ours, I try to limit the people I can disappoint. And I make sure to know the difference between my obligations and somebody else's.

Ray Velcoro

[to his wife's rapist] If they don't give you life, I will have every inch of your flesh removed with a cheese grater, starting with your prick. I'll cut off your nose and your lips, your nuts too. And I'll make sure you live. And if they do give you life, I might do it anyway.

Ray Velcoro

A turn here, a turn there, and it goes on for years, becomes something else. I'm sorry, you know, for the man I became, the father I was... I hope you got the strength to learn from that. And I hope you got no doubts how much I loved you, son. You're better than me. If I'd been stronger, I would've been more like you. Hell, son, if everyone was stronger, they'd be more like you.

Stop!

Ray Velcoro

Stop? Stop? I thought that got you off, kid, seeing people in pain. If you ever bully or hurt anybody again, I'll come back and butt-fuck your father with your mom's headless corpse on this goddamn lawn. Twelve years old, my ass. Fuck. You.

Ray Velcoro

Somebody was looking for something. Explains the torture.

Maybe. [glancing at Caspere's pornographic art] Guy thought about fucking a lot.

Ray Velcoro

What’s with all the knives?

Could you do this job if everyone you encountered could physically overpower you? Forget police work, no man could walk around like that without going nuts.

The fundamental difference between the sexes is that one of them can kill the other with their bare hands.

Ray Velcoro

Well, just so you know, I support feminism, mostly by having body image issues.

I'm commanding officer of this detail. You call me when you got something.

Ray Velcoro

Well, I got shot. That's something. I found our murder scene. That's something else.

Frank Semyon

What's with the water?

Ray Velcoro

Booze tends to take the edge off. I wanna stay angry.

May I ask, how much do you drink in a week?

Ray Velcoro

All I can.

I just don't know how to be out there in the world, man.

Ray Velcoro

Look out that window. Look at me. Nobody does.