Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind.

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

Concentrated populations of the deranged assume certain powers. It has an unsettling effect. You spend some time in a nuthouse and you'll see.

I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human.

Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

If something did not love you you would not be here.

Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

Satan is only interested in your soul. He doesnt give a shit about your welfare otherwise.

Death is not a lover.

Bright people often have a good load to carry. But boredom is seldom a part of it. It's all right. I'm always pleased to see just that small bit deeper. You deny our brotherhood. Insisting as you do in your sly way that our genealogies and our socioeconomic standings have set us apart at birth in a manner not to be contravened. But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.