“Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.” — David Mitchell Declaring war Copy Share Image
“This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.” — David Mitchell Attitude Copy Share Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.” — David Mitchell Consumerism Copy Share Image
Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. — David Mitchell Adversaries Copy Share Image
“Ambassadors are idiots who possess only one skill: outkowtowing one another at official functions.” — David Mitchell Ambassadors Copy Share Image
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your… — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to… — David Mitchell Home Copy Share Image
“the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He… — David Mitchell Dissolved Copy Share Image
“Old Ma Yibber spread the news that Zachry what came down off Mauna Kea weren't the same Zachry what'd gone up, an'… — David Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Extinction Copy Share Image
“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right… — david mitchell Music Copy Share Image
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us… — David Mitchell Creation Copy Share Image
“Through the window I looked across the oil-black Tigris at the Green Zone, lit up like Disneyland in Dystopia. I thought about… — David Mitchell Dystopia Copy Share Image
“ Exposition: the workings of the actual past + the virtual past may be illustrated by an event well known to collective… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
“I watched the All-Blacks score three tries against England, and formulated the Marco Chance versus Fate Videoed Sports Match Analogy. It goes… — David Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Absurd Copy Share Image
“Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been… — David Mitchell Construction work Copy Share Image
“Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in… — David Mitchell Magna carta Copy Share Image
“heading to.’ I consider airing my theory that our culture’s coping strategy towards death is to bury it under consumerism and samsara;… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.” — David Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
