Blood Meridian

"All war is one war."

"Time is the fires in which we burn."

"Nothing is written upon the earth that cannot be razed."

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

"In the end we are all judges."

"Only the damned are pleased with their condition."

"You cannot petition the lord with prayer."

"The world cannot be otherwise than it is."

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

"In every trade save war men have sought to perfect their instruments"

"The world cannot be known"

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"

"All acts are moves in some greater game"

"Whatever is true must be true forever"

"All violence is a form of communication"

"What is written in blood cannot be unwritten"

"In the book of all that ever was"

"Whatever moves must kill to live"

"What man does not learn he repeats"

"Whatever is inscribed in stone endures"

"What is not in the ledger does not exist"

"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed"

"The world is everything that is the case"

"He spoke of the earth and the stones and the rising of blood"

"The stars do not lie"

"What is written cannot be unwritten"

"Nothing is exempt from the law"

"Men are made for war"

"Madness and genius are neighbors"

"What is past is prologue"