Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin to heaven.

They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

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

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?

Ever is a long time.

The gifts of the Almighty are weighed and parceled out in a scale peculiar to himself.