Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

I had this dream. What dream. I had it twice. Well what was it. There was this big fire out on the dry lake. There aint nothin to burn on a dry lake. I know it. What happened. These people were burnin. The lake was on fire and they was burnin up. It's probably somethin you ate. I had the same dream twice. Maybe you ate the same thing twice. I dont think so.

If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death.

If you dont like to be laughed at dont fall on your ass, said Rawlins.

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.

I know that you can make a good case that all of human sorrow is grounded in injustice. And that sorrow is what is left when rage is expended and found to be impotent.

Your only real safety would be in disappearing.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction

In his hand he held a longbarreled sixshot Colt's patent revolver. It was a huge sidearm meant for dragoons and it carried in its long cylinders a rifle's charge and weighed close to five pounds loaded.