"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light."

“It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.”

“Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.”

“Jesus literally sliced through years of rabbinical law and cultural norms with the extreme love of God that sees the treasure in every human heart.”

“The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.”

“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”

“When my opponent's clock is going I discuss general considerations in an internal dialogue with myself. When my own clock is going I analyse conctrete variations.”

“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.33, Granta Books

“I'm just not political. I have opinions, but there's nothing about the process that has ever interested me. I'm 22, and this is the first interview I've ever done in my life.”