How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from No Country for Old Men.
Quote #7
"Man killed Lamar's deputy, took his car, killed that man on the highway, swapped for his car, now here it is and he's swapped again for God knows what."
It's clear from Ed Tom's list that Anton Chigurh has no regard for human life. He kills people and takes their cars as if he were mowing grass. And worse yet, he almost always preys on the people who are kindest and most trusting. To him, violence is less an active choice than a side effect. Now that's scary.
Quote #8
"Yeah, he's a psychopathic killer. But so what? There's plenty of them around."
After all of Ed Tom's moaning about the state of the modern world, here comes ice-cold bounty hunter Carson Wells to set him straight. Wells is unimpressed by Anton Chigurh's path of destruction. He knows that psycho killers are a dime a dozen in modern-day America (and probably always have been). All he cares about is making money by tracking them down.
Quote #9
"Even if you gave him the money, he'd still kill you for inconveniencing him."
Carson Wells tries to give Llewellyn Moss a crash course in all things Anton Chigurh, like how there's no way he (Moss) could ever make a deal with Chigurh because he has already made the mistake of annoying the man. It doesn't matter if he gives up the money. Chigurh will follow him to the ends of the Earth to kill him—not because he's an especially violent guy, but because he has a code to follow. See, Sheriff Bell? There is honor in the modern world.