Cormac McCarthy

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

Progress is a new season and the rule of progress is everything in its season.

If only I had known then the speed with which she could die, maybe I wouldn’t have become the hemlock.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

No dog ever peed on a moving car.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.