Cormac McCarthy

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.