Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

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

Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.