4 Quotes by Nicole Seitz

Pat was a complicated and occasionally contradictory man, which is to say he was human, he was flawed, and he was still in the act of self-discovery, of becoming.

Sometimes darkness rode him like a harpy, but still. Funny. My Lord, he was funny. Even when his life was ricocheting from city to wife to book to tragedy—of which there were more than a few—he remained one of the funniest men I ever knew.

Pat had a turbulent personality, a complex mixture of joy and despair, but through it all, great love.

I think the reason so many people adored him has to do with the inarticulable sensation that his person was as large as his art. As people fell in love with Ben Meechum, Will McLean, Tom Wingo, Jack McCall, and Leo Bloom, they fell simultaneously in love with Pat, the writer and the man.