Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer-winning novelist of a dark and haunting America, has died at the age of 89 at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A spare and often macabre writer, McCarthy’s many novels took a dour view of the human condition and often lushly evoked the sparseness of Appalachia and the American south-west, from brutally violent west Texas in No Country for Old Men, to the forbidding Mexican border in All the Pretty Horses, to postapocalyptic ruin in The Road. He was prolific but reclusive, only granting a few interviews during his lifetime.
Here are some of his most memorable quotes:
