The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs. — David Mitchell Hooves Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Deadly sins Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Cruelty Copy Share Image
“My role was to pulse at the edge of the universe of the faithful, alone in the darkness. An outrider. A herald.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“the First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child.” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Auction Copy Share Image
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...and there, in the background, the brite spring sky's sediment had sunk to a dark band of blue. Ah, it mesmerized me...like… — David Mitchell Snow Copy Share Image
“Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows… — David Mitchell Clock Copy Share Image
“So how does it feel?” is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There's got to be a nasty or dangerous side to anything enjoyable or there's something wrong, something suspicious and hidden. If everything… — David Mitchell Suspicious Copy Share Image
“Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Us f’gotten slaves was bein’ drained by hunger’n’pain an’ the mozzies from the slopin’ pond now an’ we was envyin’ that Hawi… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — 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 Age Copy Share Image
“But 'luckily,' the train before mine was so late that it still hadn't departed, All the seats were taken, and I had… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
“Marinus is leaning on the railing. "Warehouse number six needs rebuilding; there's a big hole in the seawall behind the guild; Constable… — David Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Creativity Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk… — David Mitchell Drive Copy Share Image
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too. — David Mitchell Humans Copy Share Image
Time is an ever-fleeting presence, to capture even a slice of it yields a wealth to having lived. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The Ghost-Girl's lips was fixed in a bitter smile, but her creamy eyes was sad so sad but proud'n'strong too.” — 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 Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I’m about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad’s going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking’s like ping-pong: you… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn’t need a why. Who or even what is ample.” — david mitchell Israel Copy Share Image
