Blood Meridian

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

"That man who sees but a few miles of the earth, how he clings to those few miles."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"In the neume of the world shall be no place for him at all in the end."

"I have no enemies."

"Men are born for games. Nothing else."

"You think you are invulnerable but you are not."

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

"Knowledge is a burden and an inheritance."

"Death is the condition of existence."

"All order is imposed."

"The earth did not move. It never moves."

"That which brings light must endure burning."

"The world is everything that is the case."

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

"The universe is a cyclopean mechanism of blood and iron."

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

"Men are made in the image of God, said the judge. God is said to be just. Yet he is not."

"You are my warrant. You follow me as the truth follows justice."

"The judge smiled. He'd a notion that what is joined together in violence can only be severed by violence."

"All things are of one substance and all things are made of the same clay"

"Everything that is is a study of power"

"War endures. As long as the child is begot it will endure"

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"

"In blood he shall be baptized"

"Even stones have a name"

"What is there in a name that its bearer should be at pains to deny it"

"Only the hunter knows what his prey is thinking"

"There is no such thing as a secret. Everything is known"

"The judge smiled. He dipped a wooden stylus in the pigment and began to draw upon a chart of the heavens merely to elucidate the character of the beasts themselves"