“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime” — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
“Her oil-black hair’s sort of punky. She must use gel. I’d love to gel her gel in for her.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire, and having things pointed at with a stick. -Robert Frobisher” — David Mitchell Lemmings Copy Share Image
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
“There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!” — David Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
“People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself… — David Mitchell Clubs Copy Share Image
“He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Southly thru shrubby heath we tromped now till we got to wideway. Wideway I'd heard o' from storymen an' here it was,… — David Mitchell Health Copy Share Image
“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be.… — David Mitchell Cheating Copy Share Image
“She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as… — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Abolition Copy Share Image
“One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock… — David Mitchell Sorcery Copy Share Image
“In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty.… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land &… — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
“I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or… — David Mitchell Different path Copy Share Image
“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.” — David Mitchell Avant garde Copy Share Image
“Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.” — David Mitchell Loneliness Copy Share Image
