Quotes from Cormac McCarthy's books, and about them
Stella Maris on The Decline of the West: “We got to talking about math and he told me that what first got him interested in the subject was the second chapter of Spengler's Decline of the West.”
Stella Maris on Bhagavad Gita: “And supposedly Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita but I think the Sanskrit word for Time came out Death or maybe the other way around.”
Suttree on The Book of Mormon: “he bought a candy bar and he sat alone on a bench in the empty waiting room ... reading from a black leatherette copy of the Book of Mormon he found in a pamphlet rack.”
Suttree on Tom Swift and His Motorcycle: “He read Tom Swift and His Motorcycle and he read The Black Brotherhood and he read Mildred at Home.”
The Crossing on Trapping North American Furbearers: “He took down a book called Trapping North American Furbearers by S Stanley Hawbaker and sat in the floor studying it but Hawbaker was from Pennsylvania and he didnt have all that much to say about wolves.”
The Passenger on Leviathan: “He went back to his bunk and got out a paperback copy of Hobbes's Leviathan.”