Cormac McCarthy Quotes

The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.