Men are made of the dust of the earth.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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Ingratitude is more common than you might think.
~ 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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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
~ Cormac McCarthy

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The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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Our waking life’s desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
~ 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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