Cormac McCarthyThinkers

The Act is that which has its being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

Attractiveness is dangerous. A goodlookin' horse is like a goodlookin woman. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

Bad luck is reviled, but you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

California is a place where the best way to live is to be from somewhere else.

Destiny is the giver of evil gifts.

Dying is not in people's plans.

Emigration is a weighty affair. A man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

Flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.

The Scar is a thing possessed of the strange power to remind us that our past is real.