Quotes About Cormac

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting the ultimate practitioner. —Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it takes place on the Tennessee River, and Cormac McCarthy, who has written 'The Orchard Keeper' and other novels, gives us a sense of river life that reads like a doomed 'Huckleberry Finn.'

I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

Of all the ancient kings of Ireland, Cormac, who reigned in the third century, is unquestionably considered greatest by the poets, the seanachies, and the chroniclers.

So, Cormac, have you ever dealt with a PMSing werewolf?' No.' Well, it's a real bitch...

I'm an enormous fan of American literature, and especially the great novels of Larry McMurtry, 'Lonesome Dove,' Cormac McCarthy, Elmore Leonard.

His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.

All of this like some ancient anointing. So be it. Evoke the forms. Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.

Do you think God knows what's happenin? I expect he does. You think he can stop it? No. I dont.

where'd you get that pistol? At the gettin place

All the trouble I ever was in, said Ballard, was caused by whiskey or women or both.

But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is God.

Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.

Diabolical on the other hand is all but synonymous with ingenious. What Satan had for sale in the garden was knowledge.

You wont man that son of a bitch, said Brown. I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky.

Still, I've got to hand it to you. As the trick said to the blind hooker.

dont know. I know that you can make a good case that all of human sorrow is grounded in injustice. And that sorrow is what is left when rage is expended and found to be impotent.

In their images they had thought to find some small immortality but oblivion cannot be appeased.

He'd bivouacked on the north side of the town