Blood Meridian Quotes

#1. 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.

Rachel Kushner

#2. McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.

Clive Sinclair

#3. As long as there are kids who are pissed off and have no real way in venting out that anger, heavy metal will live on.

Ozzy Osbourne

#4. ...we all face similar pressures to forget the simple truth of who we are. Particularly the truths that don't jive with what we see around us. As time wears us down we can forget who we once were.

Ted Dekker

#5. Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley Maclaine

#6. My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

Charles Kennedy

#7. Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

Ram Dass

#8. The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

Cormac McCarthy

#9. Democracy is a wonderful thing, Mr Burnham,' he said wistfully. 'It is a marvellous tamasha that keeps the common people busy so that men like ourselves can take care of all matters of importance. I hope one day India will also be able to enjoy these advantages - and China too, of course.

Amitav Ghosh