Sublime

He was treated with a certain deference as one who had got onto terms with life beyond what his years could account for.

I wonder if there’s other worlds like this, he said. Or if this is the only one.

He said that where expectations are few disappointments are rare.

American writer Cormac McCarthy. He’s probably the best writer I’ve ever read, including

Our privileged view into this one night of this man’s history presses upon us the realization that all knowledge is a borrowing and every fact a debt. For each event is revealed to us only at the surrender of every alternate course.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.