You can stay here with your papa and die, or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

— Cormac McCarthy

You can tell it any way you want, but that's the way it is. I should have done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit within I could go back. And I can't. I didn’t know you could steal your own life. And I didn’t know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal. I think I'm done the best with it, I knew how, but it still wasn’t mine. It never has been.

— Cormac McCarthy

You fix what you can fix, and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothing to be done about it is ain't even a problem. It's just an aggravation.

— Cormac McCarthy

You have my whole heart. You always did.

— Cormac McCarthy

You have my whole heart. You always did. Furthermore, you're the best guy. Furthermore, you always were.

— Cormac McCarthy

You keep running that mouth, and I'm going to take you back there and screw you.

— Cormac McCarthy

You know we talked about where people go when they die. I just believe you go someplace and I have seen her Latin there, and I thought maybe she wouldn't go to heaven because, you know, I thought she wouldn't, and I thought about God forgiven people and I thought about if I could ask God to forgive me for killing that son of a bitch because you and me both know I ain't sorry for it and I reckon this sounds ignorant, but I didn't want to be forgiven if she wasn't. I didn't want to do or be nothing that she wasn't like going to heaven or anything like that.

— Cormac McCarthy

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

— Cormac McCarthy

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

— Cormac McCarthy

You think when you wake up in the morning yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothing else.

— Cormac McCarthy