Madi’s Reviews > No Country for Old Men > Status Update

I told a reporter here a while back - young girl, seemed nice enough. She was just tryin to be a reporter. She said: Sheriff how come you let crime get so out of hand in your country? Sounded like a fair question I reckon. Maybe it was a fair question. Anyway I told her, I said: It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.

You can say that things could have turned out differently. But what does that mean? That are not some other way. They are this way.

He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way to live. It doesn't allow for special cases.

I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand.

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.