Cormac, You're Killing Me, Man

I'm into the third in Cormac McCarthy's "Border" trilogy.

"Cities of the Plain."

Dig this excerpt: "When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be, Billy said. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain."

I am about to propose marriage to Cormac McCarthy.