Cormac McCarthy Quotes

United States, Novelist
July 20, 1933

Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres.

Also known as Playwright, Screenwriter

We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.

Cormac McCarthy
- Time
- World
- Reality
People see what they want to see.

Cormac McCarthy
- People

When you encounter certain things in the world, the evidence for certain things, you realize that you have come upon somethin that you may very well not be equal to and I think that this is one of them things. When you've said that it's real and not just in your head I'm not all that sure what it is you have said.

Cormac McCarthy
- World
- Real
- May
I never knowed there was such a place as this.I guess there’s probably every kind of place you can think of.

Cormac McCarthy
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Cormac McCarthy
- World
I dont see you holdin no aces.

Cormac McCarthy