Cormac McCarthy, Cities Of The Plain Quotes

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.