“Oaks live for six hundred years. Two hundred to grow, two hundred to live, two hundred to die.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Advice Copy Share Image
“You can improve an incoherent mess, but you can't improve nothing” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness.… — David Mitchell Ghost stories Copy Share Image
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point… — David Mitchell About Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Bewildered Copy Share Image
“Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. — David Mitchell Hours Copy Share Image
“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.” — David Mitchell Every day Copy Share Image
“Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land &… — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
“I’m about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad’s going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking’s like ping-pong: you… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. — David Mitchell Answers Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Absence Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
