Cormac McCarthy

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.

It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.

It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it.

There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.

How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.