Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it… — David Mitchell Downside Copy Share Image
“Through the window I looked across the oil-black Tigris at the Green Zone, lit up like Disneyland in Dystopia. I thought about… — David Mitchell Green zone Copy Share Image
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” — David Mitchell Grief Copy Share Image
Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right. — David Mitchell Backwards Copy Share Image
“Why care about other people’s six-year-olds who’ll never perform anything because they died when Israeli bulldozers or Hezbollah rockets destroyed their homes?… — 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 Death 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 Ocean Copy Share Image
“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past… — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'? — David Mitchell Country Copy Share Image
“Men marry women hoping they’ll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Anonymous, faceless homicides, he decides, lack the thrill of human contact.” — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler… — David Mitchell Archivists Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me. — David Mitchell Eye Copy Share Image
“I pitched my voice for Dirty Harry, but it was more Lisping Baggins.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“Hatchets don’t work on ghosts. They cannot hear you. You only end up hatcheting yourself. Believe me. I know of what I… — David Mitchell Yourself Believe Copy Share Image
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular.… — David Mitchell Interrogation Copy Share Image
“Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
