he told me that he had been plannin to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember

What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul?

I just didnt want you to get blood on the car, he said.

catclaw

fastened with banktape stamped each with the denomination $10,000. He didnt know what it added up to but he had a pretty good idea. He sat there looking at it and then he closed the flap and sat with his head down. His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel.

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

Just keep it up. That's what she said.

There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.

sat listening. He lowered his feet to the floor and sat up. Get the keys and look in the turtle

III

There's no requirements in the Texas State Constitution for bein a sheriff. Not a one. There is no such thing as a county law. You think about a job where you have pretty much the same authority as God and there is no requirements put upon you and you are charged with preservin nonexistent laws and you tell me if that's peculiar or not. Because I say that it is. Does it work? Yes. Ninety percent of the time. It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

It's a mess, aint it Sheriff? If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good.

cat that was crossing the courtyard stopped. Then it went on again.

No me mate, he wheezed. No me mate. Chigurh stepped back to avoid the spray of ceramic chips off the tub and shot him in the face.

V

They'd torture em first, I dont know why. Maybe their television was broke. Now

VI

sulfa

some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.

They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.

want my granddaughter to be able to have an abortion. And I said well mam I dont think you got any worries about the way the country is headed. The way I see it goin I dont have much doubt but what

Chigurh thought it an odd oversight but he knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be

give me kindly a funny look