Blood Meridian

"He rode on. He did not look back."

"To see the thing itself and not the mere image of the thing."

"The machinery of the world is driven by things we do not understand."

"War endures. It is the condition of man."

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

"The world is everything that is the case and beyond that there is nothing."

"All events are foreknown yet they occur as a surprise to him who lives them."

"If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now."

"War is god. I know that. I have always known it."

"The world cannot be said to have order and to have possibility at the same time."

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

"Numbers conspire. All things do."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The world is everything that is the case"

"He sat with his elbows on his knees and studied the fire"