Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell Fiction Copy Share Image
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. — David Mitchell Past Copy Share Image
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment. — David Mitchell Anxiety Copy Share Image
“the elderly are guilty: guilty of proving to us that our willful myopia about death is exactly that. But,” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're pre-ghostwritten by forces around us.” — David Mitchell Power Copy Share Image
...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty... — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me &… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to… — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good… — David Mitchell Good intentions Copy Share Image
Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an… — David Mitchell Consumers Copy Share Image
“Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!… — David Mitchell Balloons Copy Share Image
“The world won’t leave things be. It’s always injecting endings into beginnings. Leaves tweezer themselves from these weeping willows. Leaves fall into… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Modern man Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Blossom Copy Share Image
“As my host slept I had time to wonder where I had been since Suhbataar shot my previous host. Had I hallucinated… — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t… — David Mitchell Another world Copy Share Image
