"I've never met a color I couldn't love."

“You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.”

“I'm not an urban person.”

“In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.”

“[Pope Francis] did something that both his two predecessors had failed to do - John Paul II and Benedict. Francis met with the Russian patriarch of the Orthodox Church.”

“Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.”

“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”

Source : Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

“It is only in exceptional moods that we realize how wonderful are the commonest experiences of life. It seems to me sometimes that these experiences have an "inner" side, as well as the outer side we normally perceive. At such moments one suddenly sees everything with new eyes; one feels on the brink of some great revelation. It is as if we caught a glimpse of some incredibly beautiful world that lies silently about us all the time.”

“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.73, Granta Books