Cormac McCarthy

The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead…

— Cormac McCarthy

“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about…

— Cormac McCarthy

“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded…

— Cormac McCarthy

“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark…

— Cormac McCarthy

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?”

— Cormac McCarthy

“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them…

— Cormac McCarthy

“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black…

— Cormac McCarthy

“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria,…

— Cormac McCarthy

“We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did…

— Cormac McCarthy

“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?' 'Yeah.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of…

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The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not…

— Cormac McCarthy

I guess if everybody went crazy together nobody would notice.

— Cormac McCarthy

“Riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Those who cannot see must rely upon what has gone before. If I do not wish to appear so foolish as to…

— Cormac McCarthy

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were…

— Cormac McCarthy

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

“I don't see you holdin no aces.”

— Cormac McCarthy