Blood Meridian

"The world is everything that is the case and nothing more."

"What man is there who does not prefer to be in the company of men rather than beasts?"

"In the way of things there is no trucage."

"Men are made in the image of God. But a man is something other than an image."

"I have been to see them. I have seen them in their graves."

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

"Books are made to be read and they are what they are."

"I have studied the fauna of this entire region and I tell you there is nothing in the desert that does not have a use."

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

"The judge smiled. He raised one huge index finger."

"All things are appointed and nothing is random."

"All that falls must be accounted for."

"War is the ultimate trade in all history."

"The world is older than it is young."

"All order is the order of chaos."

"That man who has not sat in darkness has not seen light."

"All things of this world are subject to corruption and decay."

"Only that man can speak who has counseled with God."

"The world cannot be lost. It exists independent of witness."

"You think there is some place these things dont happen. There is no such place."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"He rode on. He was going to be god."

"Whatever moves through the world shapes the world by moving through it."

"All books are ultimately about the same thing."

"The strong survive; the weak perish. This is not cruelty, merely truth."

"What is beautiful is often terrible."

"War cannot be reasoned with."

"All things move toward their end."

"What evil exists is not in the world but in the hearts of men."

"The flowers of evil bloom regardless of our judgment."