In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, and though a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I watched clouds awobbly from the floor ' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — 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
