Blood Meridian

"What is music."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"Whatever his antecedents he would always come before them."

"All things fall and are built again and those that build them again are not you."

"He said that war was god's way of teaching geography."

"There is no man can make a covenant with."

"The world cannot be known by the methods by which it is commonly known."

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

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

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

"In the end all things return to dust and to silence and to the darkness from which they came."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent and therefore it does not truly exist at all."

"In the final analysis the universe itself is a kind of text and we are the readers."

"War is god and god is war and they have always been one and the same."

"The child is the father of the man and all knowledge begins in the eye."

"What moves men to courage is mystery, and what is it that this band have seen but a mystery?"

"The world runs on in time like an old clock, and we are the makers of it."

"Nothing is offered that is not wanted. And desire is the lodestone."

"What is life? It is light and warmth and motion. It is entropy. It is decay."

"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible."

"The judge smiled. He made a small gesture with his cigar. The flesh was better than the stone."

"War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner."

"Men are made of the dust of the world, do you understand? There is nothing else. They inhale the world, and it becomes them."

"In the darkness all order is reversed. The darkness is absolute. It is the matrix and the Godhead and the glory of worlds."

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

"The world is a mask and behind it lies the abyss."

"What could be more hollow than a man's belief in his own self."

"The judge laughed. That which is dark will remain dark."

"The universe is a scrawl upon the dark."

"What moves men to courage is mystery."