What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God — who knows all that can be known — seems powerless to change.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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The prospect of outsized profits leads people to exaggerate their own capabilities.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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

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