“If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away… — David Mitchell Aboriginal Copy Share Image
“She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are… — David Mitchell Game Copy Share Image
“The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Meni dođe da cijeli ovaj debilni svijet raspalim po njuški, majku mu, pa da ga tabam dok mu napokon ne dođe iz… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Will I be some kid’s dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?...Which girl’s carrying the other half of… — David Mitchell Birth Copy Share Image
“Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next. A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Payday loans: “If you were the sort of person who was ever going to understand compound interest, you wouldn’t be in this… — David Mitchell Compound interest Copy Share Image
“That’s writing, I suppose—dozens of decisions about what’s in, what’s out, what goes with what, what’s clever but not honest, what’s so… — David Mitchell Writing Copy Share Image
“No wonder it's all such a fucking mess. I divided up my possible futures, put them into separate accounts, and now they're… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only “rights,” the only… — David Mitchell Hatred Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Green is made of yellow and blue, nothing else, but when you look at green, where’ve the yellow and the blue gone?… — David Mitchell Blue Copy Share Image
Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the… — David Mitchell Beach Copy Share Image
“Eavesdropping’s sort of thrilling ’cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason.” — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Britain Copy Share Image
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll… — David Mitchell Lying Copy Share Image
“The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down… — David Mitchell Cease to exist Copy Share Image
...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged, we believe that we are the surgeons. But time passes, and one sees the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half… — David Mitchell Balance Copy Share Image
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But… — David Mitchell Asian Copy Share Image
“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance… — David Mitchell Tokyo Copy Share Image
“We cut a pack of cards called historical context- our generation, Sixsmith, cut tens, jacks and queens. Adrian's cut threes, fours, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
