“Dawn Madden’s got cruel eyes like a Chinese empress and sometimes one glimpse at school makes me think about her all day.” — David Mitchell Dawn Copy Share Image
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. — David Mitchell Autumn Copy Share Image
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.” — David Mitchell Betrayal Copy Share Image
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell Body Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Cynical 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 Age Copy Share Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself… — David Mitchell Civilisation Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is… — David Mitchell Metaphysics Copy Share Image
“Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Run across a field of daisies at warp speed but keep your eyes on the ground. It's ace. Pedaled stars and dandelion… — David Mitchell Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
“Quantum physics speaks in chance, with the syntax of uncertainty. You can know the position of an electron but you cannot know… — David Mitchell Physics 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
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler… — David Mitchell Archivists Copy Share Image
“A Muzak version of “Imagine” comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.” — David Mitchell Imagination Copy Share Image
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. — David Mitchell Bears Copy Share Image
“London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.” — David Mitchell England Copy Share Image
“You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters. That's not quite the same as wishing to be one” — David Mitchell Sister Copy Share Image
“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Men marry women hoping they’ll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.” — David Mitchell Marriage Copy Share Image
“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.” — David Mitchell Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“If only human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Human beings Copy Share Image
“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they… — David Mitchell Rewriting history Copy Share Image
“In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli.… — David Mitchell Kings Copy Share Image
“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth …… — David Mitchell Butterfly Copy Share Image
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will… — David Mitchell Giving Copy Share Image
“Embrace your enemy,” the elders urged, “to prevent him striking you.” (“Embrace your enemy,” Henry quipped, “to feel his dagger tickle your… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Why care about other people’s six-year-olds who’ll never perform anything because they died when Israeli bulldozers or Hezbollah rockets destroyed their homes?… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our weapon is… — David Mitchell Corporations Copy Share Image
