“Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most — David Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.” — David Mitchell Relationships Copy Share Image
“...Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.” — David Mitchell Racism Copy Share Image
“Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.” — David Mitchell Hate Copy Share Image
“Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You can’t go changing what you’ve already set down, not without botching things up even more” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel… — David Mitchell Coffee Copy Share Image
“Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over,… — David Mitchell Dance Copy Share Image
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the… — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to… — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands… — David Mitchell Marriage Copy Share Image
“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble… — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Absence Copy Share Image
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards. Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence. Shunning one hopeless… — David Mitchell Bullying Copy Share Image
“There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I'm shoutin' back more'n forty long years at myself, yay,...Oy, list'n! Times are you're weak 'gainst the world! Times are you can't… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.” — David Mitchell Loneliness Copy Share Image
