Between the Wish and the Thing the World lies Waiting: Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

You have to carry the fire.
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? The fire?
Yes it is.
Where is it? I don't know where it is.
Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
― Cormac McCarthy

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

There is no God and we are his prophets.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
You forget some things, don't you?
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

You think when you wake up in the mornin 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. Nothin else.
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men