The Best Stuff I (Re)Read This Week

“Suffering is a part of the human condition and must be borne. But misery is a choice.”

— Cormac McCarthy / The Passenger

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten, can they?”

— Cormac McCarthy / All the Pretty Horses

“Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons.”

— Cormac McCarthy / Suttree

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever … You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”

— Cormac McCarthy / The Road

“Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he’s made of it. You tell me that I want God’s love? I don’t.”

— Cormac McCarthy / The Sunset Limited

“The point is there ain’t no point.”

— Cormac McCarthy / No Country for Old Men

“When all trace of our existence is gone, for whom then will this be a tragedy?”

— Cormac McCarthy / Stella Maris

What I’m Listening To:

“Now he sits all alone
And it’s no place like home
It’s empty skin
A bag to keep life’s souvenirs in”

— XTC / “The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul”