“I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“ Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds, an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger… — David Mitchell Heart Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? — David Mitchell Make sense Copy Share Image
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will… — David Mitchell Giving Copy Share Image
“In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli.… — David Mitchell Kings Copy Share Image
“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.” — David Mitchell Music Copy Share Image
“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“A handful of gems from Somni: "One's environment is a key to one's identity." "An impulse can be both vaguely understood and… — David Mitchell Identity Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. — David Mitchell Because Copy Share Image
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. — David Mitchell Accepted Copy Share Image
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye. — David Mitchell Autumn Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Appetite Copy Share Image
“Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play… — David Mitchell First time Copy Share Image
The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. — David Mitchell Candle Copy Share Image
“Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell American culture Copy Share Image
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as… — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.” — David Mitchell Communication Copy Share Image
“If consumers found fulfillment at any meaningful level, she extemporized, corpocracy would be finished.” — David Mitchell Consumerism Copy Share Image
