Judge Holden

"Blood meridian is your destiny."

"There is no such thing as a chance encounter."

"Everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"You must be prepared to die for what you believe."

"The world does not change, only our perception of it."

"I am a solitary thing and I contain all things."

"In the court of the final moment all decisions are made."

"There is no such thing as a mistake in the grand design."

"The judge smiled. He rose and walked out onto the terrace and stood looking at the landscape, his massive head silhouetted against the burning sky"

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"

"The only thing worth stealing is time"

"The world is everything that is the case"

"You think there is something which you do not know"

"In the desert you respect the silence or you die."

"The world is everything that is the case and all else is speculation."

"A man's life is his own. He may do with it as he sees fit."

"The things of this world have no order but only accident and chance."

"Beauty exists in proportion and grace and certain relations which admit no exceptions."

"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."

"What is it you want said the kid. Nothing said the judge. Everything."

"A man is what he does not what he says he will do."

"He said that war was a thing which could not be known but only endured."

"He said that men were nothing and that all their works would come to nothing."

"The judge said that nature was a thing that had to be conquered and catalogued."

"What God has joined together let no man put asunder said the judge with mockery in his pale eyes."

"You think to oppose me but you are not equipped. I move through the world and whatever I wish to know I know."

"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."

"There is nothing in nature that cannot be read if one learns how."

"Numbers conspire. All things do."

"That which is withheld is not concealed but rather has no existence whatsoever."