Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, "The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...” — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
“Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.” — David Mitchell First kiss Copy Share Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up. — David Mitchell Funny Copy Share Image
“Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“What women want is still what it's always been: either you or, more likely, not you.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.” — David Mitchell Temples Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past… — David Mitchell Mind 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
“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
“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
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The… — David Mitchell Power Copy Share Image
“The clock’s pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final moments of Jacob de Zoet, amber shadows in the far corner… — David Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over cloistered gardens,… — David Mitchell Bird 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 Age Copy Share Image
“The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , because… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning… — David Mitchell Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell American culture Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we’d… — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There’s the blind, Mr. Grimaldi, there’s the willfully blind, and then there’s the soon to be retired.” — David Mitchell Blind Copy Share Image
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create… — David Mitchell Best way Copy Share Image
“At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“that's like Vlad the Impaler calling Maggie Thatcher a bit insensitive.” — David Mitchell Insensitive Copy Share Image
“The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Knowing what you're doing' largely involves pretending to know what you're doing.” — David Mitchell Confidence-and-attitude Copy Share Image
“Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers.” — David Mitchell Around the world Copy Share Image
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“and then we hear a noise like … a town being dropped, and everything in it smashing to bits.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Victims aren’t cowards. Outsiders, like, they never have a clue how brave you have to be just to carry on.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People outsourced their memories to data centers and basic skills to tabs.” — David Mitchell Data Copy Share Image
“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.” — David Mitchell Food Copy Share Image
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of… — David Mitchell Inspiring Copy Share Image
