Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“And for What, For What. No matter what you do it will never amount to anything but a single drop in a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’… — David Mitchell 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
“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a… — David Mitchell 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 Copy Share Image
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as… — David Mitchell 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 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
