Cormac McCarthy

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.

We change every minute, never the same. If there’s no room to express the changes there can’t be any truthfulness.

And of all the things I look forward to in life, falling in love with you is at the top of the list.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.