Time is an ever-fleeting presence, to capture even a slice of it yields a wealth to having lived. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create… — 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 Copy Share Image
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon… — David Mitchell 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 Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
