Patrick deWitt Quotes

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.