Happy birthday, Cormac McCarthy! 86, today!
“I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”
“The truth is what happened. It aint what come out of somebody’s mouth.”
“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.”
“It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.”
“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
“If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
“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.”