Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Cormac McCarthy

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Cormac McCarthy

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Cormac McCarthy

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas.

Cormac McCarthy

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

Cormac McCarthy

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

Cormac McCarthy

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

Cormac McCarthy

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

Cormac McCarthy

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

Cormac McCarthy

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Cormac McCarthy

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.

Cormac McCarthy

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Cormac McCarthy