“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.” — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
“Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it… — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“Problem was, all this is new. In English at school we study a grammar book by a man named Ronald Rideout, read… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world… — David Mitchell Broken Copy Share Image
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart… — David Mitchell Learning Copy Share Image
“The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy.” — David Mitchell Music Copy Share Image
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? — David Mitchell Atlas 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
“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep… — David Mitchell David-mitchell 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
“Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.” — David Mitchell Crush Copy Share Image
“Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest pastime” — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
“Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.” — David Mitchell Generosity Copy Share Image
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon… — David Mitchell Another chance Copy Share Image
...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework. — David Mitchell Fireworks Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Absurd Copy Share Image
“Embrace your enemy,” the elders urged, “to prevent him striking you.” (“Embrace your enemy,” Henry quipped, “to feel his dagger tickle your… — David Mitchell Humourous Copy Share Image
“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.” — David Mitchell Writing Copy Share Image
“After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.” — David Mitchell Existentialism 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
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. — David Mitchell Ideas Copy Share Image
