Patrick deWitt Quotes

It's such a liberating feeling to go out of your comfort zone, to be independent and strike out on my own without my parents.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.

I have to have the wheel. It's given me an opportunity to experience and explore things.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

I really wanted to find my own path.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

I did my solo thing for a while and got that out of my system.

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.

I believe in love, but I'm not sitting around waiting for it. I buy houses. I travel. I take jobs on mountaintops in Transylvania... I know that happiness comes in many ways and if you spend your life hoping to be found by or to find a significant other, you're going to miss out on all that stuff. And that's what makes you special and makes your life rich.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Make it on your own if you think you can.If you see somewhere to go, I understand.

Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.

In a very slow way, I found my path. Even now, I think, 'If I can't do it my way, I'd rather not do it.'