Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

The point, Squire, is that where they used to be confined to State institutions or to the mudrooms and attics of remote country houses they are now abroad everywhere. The government pays them to travel. To procreate, for that matter. I've seen entire families here that can best be explained as hallucinations. Hordes of drooling dolts lurching through the streets. Their inane gibbering. And of course no folly so deranged or pernicious as to escape their advocacy.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.

This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.