Cormac McCarthy

"The body is not something that stands separate from the mind and history."

"In the landscape the past is always present."

"What you don't know doesn't hurt you, but what you fear always will."

"The myths of the world are its only enduring truths."

"To find something that matters is to discover what you're willing to die for."

"Freedom exists only in the space between consent and coercion."

"The patient is not a person for whom a cure is sought but one for whom an ending must be arranged."

"In the absence of moral clarity, we create our own moral universe."

"What a man can imagine, he can become."

"The measure of all things is the capacity to endure."

"There is no greater power than the power of suggestion, and we are all bound by the suggestions of those before us."

"Love is the most treacherous thing on earth."

"The beauty of things lies in the light of the mind."

"Work is not a curse but the currency of meaning."

"Technology is the tentacle of a mind that grasps at everything."

"The law of the world is that the strongest survive, and this has never changed."

"Nature is indifferent to human suffering, and therein lies its terrible honesty."

"Kindness in a brutal world is a revolutionary act."

"The strongest animal in any struggle is the one willing to lose everything."

"All creation is a kind of theft from the formless void."

"The silence between words contains more meaning than the words themselves."

"Hope is the last thing a man loses, and the first thing he should abandon."

"Music is organized sound, which is to say organized time, which is to say organized thought."

"Family is the debt we inherit at birth and spend a lifetime trying to repay."

"Adventure is not about reaching a destination but about being changed by the journey."

"The educated man is a prisoner of his own knowledge."

"Change is the only constant, and resistance to it is the only constant failure."

"Gratitude is not a feeling but a practice, a discipline of the will."

"The greatest lies are those we tell ourselves about who we are."

"In the beginning, all was formless, and the mind creates form from chaos."