Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible. — David Mitchell Ass Copy Share Image
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. — David Mitchell Ideas Copy Share Image
“Who decides which defects are funny and which ones are tragic? Nobody laughs at blind people or makes iron lung jokes.” — David Mitchell Blind people Copy Share Image
“Marinus blows out a mouthful of air. "Did close-range artillery knock any sense into you, or are we staying?” — David Mitchell Artillery Copy Share Image
“One should be wary of touching one’s idols, for the gilt comes off on one’s fingertips.” — David Mitchell Wary Copy Share Image
“People outsourced their memories to data centers and basic skills to tabs.” — David Mitchell Data Copy Share Image
“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.” — David Mitchell Food Copy Share Image
“an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon.” — David Mitchell Spoon 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… — David Mitchell Wheelchair Copy Share Image
“Sorry, poppet,” I tell Aoife. “I was miles away.” “No, you weren’t. You’re right here.” “I was miles away metaphorically.” “What’s meta … frickilly?”… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Britain Copy Share Image
“The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down… — David Mitchell Cease to exist Copy Share Image
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll… — David Mitchell Lying Copy Share Image
“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance… — David Mitchell Tokyo Copy Share Image
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But… — David Mitchell Asian Copy Share Image
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half… — David Mitchell Balance Copy Share Image
“Linnaeus's last lesson, of which he himself was unaware, was that professorships kill philosophers. Oh, I'm vain enough to want my burgeoning… — David Mitchell Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from… — David Mitchell Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“The clock’s pendulum catches the firelight, and in the rattle-breathed final moments of Jacob de Zoet, amber shadows in the far corner… — David Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers. The… — David Mitchell Power Copy Share Image
“When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want… — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew… — David Mitchell Dance Copy Share Image
“Human beings,’ I inhale my wine’s nutmeggy steam, ‘are walking bundles of cravings. Cravings for food, water, shelter, warmth; sex and companionship;… — David Mitchell Cravings Copy Share Image
“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.” — David Mitchell Answers Copy Share Image
“Victims aren’t cowards. Outsiders, like, they never have a clue how brave you have to be just to carry on.” — David Mitchell Coward Copy Share Image
“and then we hear a noise like … a town being dropped, and everything in it smashing to bits.” — David Mitchell Dropped Copy Share Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Ancestor Copy Share Image
“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.” — David Mitchell Fantasy 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
Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now, — David Mitchell Intention 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 Inspiring Copy Share Image
“At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.” — David Mitchell Clouds Copy Share Image
“There’s the blind, Mr. Grimaldi, there’s the willfully blind, and then there’s the soon to be retired.” — David Mitchell Blind Copy Share Image
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create… — David Mitchell Best way Copy Share Image
“Knowing what you're doing' largely involves pretending to know what you're doing.” — David Mitchell Confidence-and-attitude Copy Share Image
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. — David Mitchell Crosses Copy Share Image
“Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers.” — David Mitchell Around the world Copy Share Image
“The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.” — David Mitchell Drowning Copy Share Image
“that's like Vlad the Impaler calling Maggie Thatcher a bit insensitive.” — David Mitchell Insensitive Copy Share Image
