I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.
Patrick deWittYour skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are taking hold like a glowing white planet coming into view. A reverse eclipse. And you watch with your eyes closed. The white planet is half exposed, it grips your heart in its light and seems to be pulling you forward and now you feel that you are falling. You are awake but dreaming. "The earth is not beautiful but the universe is," you say.
Patrick deWittThe creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
Patrick deWittI thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.
Patrick deWitt