Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share
“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed… — david mitchell Copy Share
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A merry activity?'… — David Mitchell Copy Share
