If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?