“If I was the pope, I'd've made Mrs. de Roo a saint. On the spot.” — David Mitchell Pope Copy Share Image
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. — David Mitchell An-orison-of-somni-451 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
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
“See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.” — David Mitchell Death 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 Mountain Copy Share Image
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo. — David Mitchell Nintendo Copy Share Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards. — David Mitchell Coward Copy Share Image
“the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He… — David Mitchell Dissolved Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Extinction Copy Share Image
“Old Ma Yibber spread the news that Zachry what came down off Mauna Kea weren't the same Zachry what'd gone up, an'… — David Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that… — David Mitchell Bloody Copy Share Image
You say youre depressed - all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't… — David Mitchell Depressed 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 Human condition Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Blizzard Copy Share Image
“Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I. Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an'… — David Mitchell True Copy Share Image
“Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in… — David Mitchell Magna carta Copy Share Image
“Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been… — David Mitchell Construction work Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Absurd Copy Share Image
“I watched the All-Blacks score three tries against England, and formulated the Marco Chance versus Fate Videoed Sports Match Analogy. It goes… — David Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
“heading to.’ I consider airing my theory that our culture’s coping strategy towards death is to bury it under consumerism and samsara;… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep… — David Mitchell David-mitchell Copy Share Image
“ Exposition: the workings of the actual past + the virtual past may be illustrated by an event well known to collective… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a… — David Mitchell Happiness Copy Share Image
