“Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.” — David Mitchell Loneliness 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
“The only explanation is that my senses, memory, and mind are conspiring against my well-being, and nothing’s scarier than that.” — David Mitchell Psychology Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Blizzard Copy Share Image
“This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and… — David Mitchell Dialogue Copy Share Image
“Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders… — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Being human Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“A bird hopped onto the foaming lilac outside. Its throat quivered; notes rose and fell out. As long as it kept singing… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Incredulity Copy Share Image
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. — David Mitchell Ancient Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Modern man 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
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write… — David Mitchell Every day Copy Share Image
“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ” — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. — David Mitchell Caves Copy Share Image
“The Icon'ry, Aunt Bees said, held Valleysmen's past an' present all t'gether” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
