"The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone."

“I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.8, Granta Books

“I want to take you away from this," I say, motioning around the kitchen, spastic. "From sushi and elves and... STUFF.”

“Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.”

“What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.”

“Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.”

“A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.”

“It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring”

“The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.”