Blood Meridian

"That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"The world cannot be said to have laws. The right to exemplarity belongs to the judge alone."

"The world is an old whore and she will not be troubled further."

"What is the nature of God? To be neither one nor the other but something between."

"What is one against the eternal and the unchanging?"

"In the last reckoning every man is his own god."

"There is something godlike in the very bloodletting itself."

"What man would not seek to be greater than his maker?"

"Men are made of dust and the dust will have no truck with the reconstruct of that dust to any end of man's choosing."

"What is written cannot be unwritten."

"In the end all things tend toward chaos."

"What is the nature of this thing that would persist in spite of all?"

"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance."

"What is life without the prospect of death?"

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him."

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

"All order is in the end the order of death."

"Nothing is true that is not real."

"Fire is the ultimate truth."

"There is no murder. There is only the taking of life."

"The universe is a thing of beauty and mystery."

"There is no such thing as a closed book."

"You've no idea how strange other men are."

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

"The world will not be cheated of its due."

"All things move toward their destruction."

"The strong prey upon the weak."

"There is no redemption."

"In the end all accounts are settled."

"Knowledge is power."