“You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with… — David Mitchell Drug addict Copy Share Image
“The dumbest dog can sit and watch. What takes brains is knowing when to look away.” — David Mitchell Dog Copy Share Image
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't… — David Mitchell Feels Copy Share Image
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. — David Mitchell Behemoth 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
“When pain is vivid, when decisions are keen-edged, we believe that we are the surgeons. But time passes, and one sees the… — David Mitchell David Copy Share Image
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice. — David Mitchell Humans Copy Share Image
“This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“ Exposition: the workings of the actual past + the virtual past may be illustrated by an event well known to collective… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. — David Mitchell Division Copy Share Image
“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too. — David Mitchell Humans Copy Share Image
“But love’s not just the drug; it’s also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the… — David Mitchell Calm mind Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a… — David Mitchell Happiness Copy Share Image
“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our weapon is… — David Mitchell Money power Copy Share Image
“A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement.” — David Mitchell Youth Copy Share Image
“the First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child.” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.” — David Mitchell Truth Copy Share Image
“That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.” — David Mitchell Love 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 Philosophy 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
