All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
Cormac McCarthyOn this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
Cormac McCarthyPeople 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 McCarthyI yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.
Cormac McCarthy