He's been married three times! Has a couple of kids. There's a reference in one of the interviews (one to NYT, the other to WSJ) to "young girlfriends" he had when he was drinking! No. You can't be getting your noodle wet like that and be a closeted gay man. I was wrong.

I'm holding fast to voyeuristic sadism or sadistic voyeurism. Here is the full quote from the Times interview that James Woods partially quoted:

"There's no such thing as life without bloodshed," McCarthy says philosophically. "I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."

McCarthy is mad.