"The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer."

“I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!”

“Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.”

“I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.”

“Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.”

“When you get to the NFL, the hits are a little bit harder. That’s why I see the Chiropractor”

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

“Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.”

“I never understood the low art/high art distinction.”