Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now, — David Mitchell Intention Copy Share Image
“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.” — David Mitchell Fantasy Copy Share Image
“My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss” — David Mitchell Spirituality Copy Share Image
“One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens.” — David Mitchell Astronomy Copy Share Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Ancestor Copy Share Image
“Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning.” — David Mitchell Laughter Copy Share Image
“ The belly craves food , she thinks, The tongue craves water, The heart craves love, and The mind craves stories. ” — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.” — David Mitchell Fish 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
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The police have also been under hostile scrutiny because of their handling of the student protests over fees. I sympathise: they’re in… — David Mitchell Police Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self,… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
“Problem was, all this is new. In English at school we study a grammar book by a man named Ronald Rideout, read… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out… — David Mitchell Aging Copy Share Image
“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into… — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Killing depends on circumstances, as you'd expect, whether it's a cold, planned murder, or a hot death in a fight, or inspired… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“Niels Bohr, the great Dane of quantum physics, was fond of saying, "It is wrong to think that the task of physics… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t write in a void. We work in a physical space, a room, ideally in a house like Laxness’s Gljúfrasteinn, but… — David Mitchell Geography Copy Share Image
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual… — David Mitchell Backbone Copy Share Image
“So Wise Man summ'ned Crow an' say-soed him these words: Fly across the crazed'n'jiffyin' ocean to the Mighty Volcano, an' on it's… — David Mitchell Wisdom Copy Share Image
“We create models to explain nature, but the models wind u gate-crashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants. In my lecturing… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. — David Mitchell Beloved Copy Share Image
“One should be wary of touching one’s idols, for the gilt comes off on one’s fingertips.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Marinus blows out a mouthful of air. "Did close-range artillery knock any sense into you, or are we staying?” — David Mitchell Artillery Copy Share Image
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself. — David Mitchell Masterpiece Copy Share Image
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell Candle Copy Share Image
“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.” — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. — David Mitchell Ideas Copy Share Image
“Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes.” — David Mitchell Blind people Copy Share Image
“Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.” — David Mitchell Pity Copy Share Image
“ Act , implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance. ” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Hatchets don’t work on ghosts. They cannot hear you. You only end up hatcheting yourself. Believe me. I know of what I… — David Mitchell Ghost Copy Share Image
“I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is… — David Mitchell Boys Copy Share Image
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. — David Mitchell Bad mood Copy Share Image
“I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image