“You said you envied your uncritical, unthinking sisters. That's not quite the same as wishing to be one” — David Mitchell Sister Copy Share Image
“London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here.” — David Mitchell England Copy Share Image
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. — David Mitchell Bears Copy Share Image
“Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.” — David Mitchell Hurt Copy Share Image
“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...” — David Mitchell Reviewer Reasoned Copy Share Image
“Men marry women hoping they’ll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.” — David Mitchell Marriage Copy Share Image
“The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder.” — David Mitchell Bladder Copy Share Image
“A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere,… — David Mitchell Immorality Copy Share Image
“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they… — David Mitchell Cell phones Copy Share Image
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“If one will just be still, shut up, and listen --lo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in… — David Mitchell Listen Copy Share Image
“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.” — David Mitchell Music Copy Share Image
“So do not fritter away your days. Sooner than you fear, you will stand before a mirror in a care home, look… — David Mitchell Cupboard Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world," says Mo. "It was the system. We couldn't change it." "Then it's not… — David Mitchell Couldn Change Copy Share Image
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish… — David Mitchell About Copy Share Image
“Killing depends on circumstances, as you'd expect, whether it's a cold, planned murder, or a hot death in a fight, or inspired… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t write in a void. We work in a physical space, a room, ideally in a house like Laxness’s Gljúfrasteinn, but… — David Mitchell Geography Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we’d… — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell American culture Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — David Mitchell Nobody knows Copy Share Image
“The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , because… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.” — David Mitchell Betrayal Copy Share Image
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“A Muzak version of “Imagine” comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.” — David Mitchell Imagination Copy Share Image
“ Act , implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance. ” — David Mitchell Another chance 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 Ghost Copy Share Image
“Self pity, Orito reminds herself yet again, is a noose dangling from a rafter.” — David Mitchell Pity Copy Share Image
“Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.” — David Mitchell Bleed Copy Share Image
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. — David Mitchell Bad mood Copy Share Image
“I Din't finish speakin' my cure 'cos Roses schnockoed my face so hard the ground dived forward an' I crashed my jaxy.” — David Mitchell Crashed 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 Dawn Copy Share Image
“I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.” — David Mitchell Jacob Copy Share Image
Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is… — David Mitchell Boys Copy Share Image
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. — David Mitchell Beloved Copy Share Image
“Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.” — David Mitchell Fish Copy Share Image
“Because her laughter spurts through a blowhole in the top of her head and sprays all over the morning.” — David Mitchell Laughter Copy Share Image
“ The belly craves food , she thinks, The tongue craves water, The heart craves love, and The mind craves stories. ” — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
