What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. — David Mitchell Atlas Copy Share Image
“London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“and then we hear a noise like … a town being dropped, and everything in it smashing to bits.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Also Copy Share Image
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. — David Mitchell About Copy Share Image
“We create models to explain nature, but the models wind up gatecrashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants.” — David Mitchell Creativity Copy Share Image
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions? — David Mitchell Answers Copy Share Image
“The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time.” — David Mitchell Prayer Copy Share Image
“He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“Dawn Madden’s got cruel eyes like a Chinese empress and sometimes one glimpse at school makes me think about her all day.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell Extinction Copy Share Image
“So, I asked ’gain, is it better to be savage’n to be Civ’lized? List’n, savages an’ Civ’lizeds ain’t divvied by tribes or… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss” — David Mitchell Spirituality Copy Share Image
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it? — David Mitchell Bits Copy Share Image
“Her oil-black hair’s sort of punky. She must use gel. I’d love to gel her gel in for her.” — David Mitchell Black hair 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
“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But… — David Mitchell Because Copy Share Image
