“After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.” — David Mitchell Existentialism Copy Share Image
“Funny, thinks Milton. Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.” — David Mitchell Fidelity Copy Share Image
“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.” — David Mitchell Earliest memories Copy Share Image
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell Extinction Copy Share Image
“Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it… — David Mitchell Creation Copy Share Image
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if… — David Mitchell Poetry Copy Share Image
Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I’d always worried but kissing’s not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do.… — David Mitchell First kiss Copy Share Image
“I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People’re a nestful of needs. Dull needs, sharp needs, bottomless-pit needs, flash-in-the-pan needs, needs for things you can’t hold, needs for things… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent… — David Mitchell Father Copy Share Image
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in… — David Mitchell Hunger Copy Share Image
“I’m not in the Scouts anymore,” I remind her. Mr. Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and… — David Mitchell Following orders Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s… — David Mitchell Military police Copy Share Image
“Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
