“I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbi...” — Cormac McCarthy Quote

“I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.”

“People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.”

“My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.”

“I'm never trying to make something esoteric; it just happens.”

“When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.”