Cormac McCarthy Doe Quotations

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.

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

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way.

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.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?