If you guessed that yesterday's line was from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, you're super in my book. This is no dim western. It's blood and gore and depravity - McCarthy's "redemption through violence" book. Not sure how that works, though.

Today's Line - from one of the most famous of all American writers:

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."