“She murmurs, “You only value something if you know it’ll end.” N” — David Mitchell Know Copy Share Image
“After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.” — David Mitchell Existentialism Copy Share Image
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. — David Mitchell Adversaries Copy Share Image
“Ambassadors are idiots who possess only one skill: outkowtowing one another at official functions.” — David Mitchell Ambassadors Copy Share Image
Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. — David Mitchell Easy Copy Share Image
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement.” — David Mitchell Teenagers Copy Share Image
“por qué cualquier dominador teme que sus vasallos adquieran conocimiento. No me atreví a pronunciar la palabra insurrección” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
“Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.” — David Mitchell Declaring war Copy Share Image
“This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.” — David Mitchell Attitude Copy Share Image
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi:… — David Mitchell Good enough Copy Share Image
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Becoming Copy Share Image
“All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
“People’re a nestful of needs. Dull needs, sharp needs, bottomless-pit needs, flash-in-the-pan needs, needs for things you can’t hold, needs for things… — David Mitchell Needs Copy Share Image
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams… — David Mitchell Day and night Copy Share Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?' 'Who?' 'Um . . .' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if… — David Mitchell Poetry 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 Dystopia Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed.… — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
“Controls is about fear, see. If you’re afraid enough of the reprisals, you don’t say no, you don’t fight back, you don’t… — David Mitchell Afraid Copy Share Image
“We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We… — David Mitchell Memento mori Copy Share Image
I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence… — David Mitchell Blame Copy Share Image
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell Absorbing Copy Share Image
“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
“People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their… — David Mitchell Buried Copy Share Image
