Cormac McCarthy

"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way., Nov. 20, 2009]."

"In that cold autistic dark."

"His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it."

"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."

"I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does."

"By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker."

"He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he."