D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

Australia, Writer
1961

DBC Pierre is an Australian writer who wrote the novel Vernon God Little. He was born in South Australia in 1961, before moving to Mexico, where Pierre was largely raised. He now resides in the Republic of Ireland.

Also known as Novelist

If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.

D.B.C. Pierre
- Model
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.

D.B.C. Pierre

Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.

D.B.C. Pierre
- Life
- Real
- Bad
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.

D.B.C. Pierre
- People
- Up
- Learning
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.

D.B.C. Pierre
- Life
- Men
- Nature
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.

D.B.C. Pierre
- Together
- Sun
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

D.B.C. Pierre
- Up
- Help
- Sky