Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay.

I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you'd make the right choice even then. I believe in God's design.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

Blood was a condition of their lives and none asked what had befallen him or why.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.

Where the bodies are buried in the desert is a certain world, Counselor. Where they are simply left in the street is another. That is a country heretofore unknown to me. But it must have always been there, must it not?

Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now?

What runs so contrary to received wisdom is that it really is the male who is the aesthete while the woman is drawn to abstractions. Wealth. Power. What a man seeks is beauty, plain and simple. No other way to put it. The rustle of her clothes, her scent. The sweep of her hair across his naked stomach. Categories all but meaningless to a woman. Lost in her calculations.

The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past the men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and wales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Three weeks ago I was a law abidin citizen. Workin a nine to five job. Eight to four, anyways. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.