“If I was the pope, I'd've made Mrs. de Roo a saint. On the spot.” — David Mitchell Pope Copy Share Image
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You underestimate humanity's ability to bring such evil into being.” — David Mitchell Evil Copy Share Image
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. — David Mitchell Caves Copy Share Image
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. — David Mitchell Eloquent Copy Share Image
“A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement.” — David Mitchell Teenagers Copy Share Image
“por qué cualquier dominador teme que sus vasallos adquieran conocimiento. No me atreví a pronunciar la palabra insurrección” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Advice Copy Share Image
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams… — David Mitchell Day and night Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Human condition Copy Share Image
You say youre depressed - all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't… — David Mitchell Depressed Copy Share Image
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
“Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I. Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi:… — David Mitchell Good enough Copy Share Image
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We… — David Mitchell Memento mori Copy Share Image
“What if the differences between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge?… — David Mitchell Consciousness Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Take any two electrons -- or, in Dr. Bell's and my case, photos-- that originate from a common source, measure and combine… — David Mitchell Milky way Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a… — David Mitchell Happiness Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed.… — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
“Controls is about fear, see. If you’re afraid enough of the reprisals, you don’t say no, you don’t fight back, you don’t… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You can improve an incoherent mess, but you can't improve nothing” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
