“Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.” — David Mitchell Aftermath Copy Share Image
“The only explanation is that my senses, memory, and mind are conspiring against my well-being, and nothing’s scarier than that.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.” — David Mitchell Possession Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Deadly sins Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Cruelty Copy Share Image
“My role was to pulse at the edge of the universe of the faithful, alone in the darkness. An outrider. A herald.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. — David Mitchell Being 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
“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
The mind has a mind of its own. It shows us pictures. Pictures of the past and the might-one-day-be. This mind's mind… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;” — David Mitchell Future Copy Share Image
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Chaos Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Ambiguity Copy Share Image
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders… — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
“Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man… — David Mitchell Dominion Copy Share Image
“If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as… — David Mitchell Humanity 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
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
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
“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
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
“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates… — David Mitchell Great man Copy Share Image
“Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
![“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe…” quote by David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/728/david-mitchell-264_great-man_i-put-it-to-the-great-man-hitchcock-the_2177328.jpg)
