Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Whether it is done quickly or slowly, however splendid the results, the process of writing fiction is inherently, inevitably, indistinguishable from wasting time.

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

When one writes, there’s the double horror of discovering not only what it is that one so fears but also the triviality of that fear.

It's broadening. You meet people in your family you'd never happen to run into otherwise.

I always thought of writing as holy. I still do. It’s not something to be approached casually.

I'm a person with virtually no feelings.

Ask the person who found you about what kind of people she was looking for before meeting you, as she may not know that she has found one of them already.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

At that moment, I wished I were the wind, free to dance across her flesh, seep through her clothing, and explore the forbidden depths of her body beneath.

Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face NOTHING new under the sun.

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.