Patrick deWitt Quotes

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

I have contact with no one involved in the trial.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

It's lonely up here.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

I am out of humanity's reach.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

People tend to keep their distance.