“La risata è anarchia e blasfema. I tiranni fanno bene a temerla.” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
“Only a flea of hope.. 'But fleas ain't easy to rid' -Meronym” — David Mitchell Flea Copy Share Image
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime — David Mitchell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.” — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. — David Mitchell Adept Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Auction Copy Share Image
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? — David Mitchell Make sense Copy Share Image
Time is an ever-fleeting presence, to capture even a slice of it yields a wealth to having lived. — David Mitchell Fleeting 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 Conspiring Copy Share Image
“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
“There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!” — David Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us… — David Mitchell Back together Copy Share Image
“All rising suns set, Archivist. [...] All revolutions are [fantacy, lunacy], until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. [...] I was… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a… — David Mitchell Believe Copy Share Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely… — David Mitchell Badges Copy Share Image
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us… — David Mitchell Creation Copy Share Image
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me &… — David Mitchell Explanation Copy Share Image
“My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to… — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Adulthood 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 Ethics Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Adam Copy Share Image
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“Us f’gotten slaves was bein’ drained by hunger’n’pain an’ the mozzies from the slopin’ pond now an’ we was envyin’ that Hawi… — David Mitchell Ripped Elfy Copy Share Image
“Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances a dish, but you throw a hill of it inton the pot!… — David Mitchell Beautiful words Copy Share Image
“Marinus is leaning on the railing. "Warehouse number six needs rebuilding; there's a big hole in the seawall behind the guild; Constable… — David Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Creativity Copy Share Image
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. — David Mitchell Peace Copy Share Image
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs. — David Mitchell Hooves Copy Share Image