"My guess is that you can only be so happy. While there seems to be no floor to sorrow."
Cormac McCarthy was an American author who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, post-apocalyptic, and Southern Gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is characterized by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists.
"Theres no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
"And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic birds first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare."
"I dont think goodness is something that you learn. If youre left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble."
"The man sat watching the road, the weedstem twirling in his mouth and the threadthin shadow of it going long and short upon his face like a sundials hand beneath a sun berserk."
"Dont take in no strangers while Im gone. She sighed deeply. They aint a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said."
"Im not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesnt take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."