I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps. — David Mitchell Abyss Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Deadly sins Copy Share Image
“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“But 'luckily,' the train before mine was so late that it still hadn't departed, All the seats were taken, and I had… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, ‘The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something …’ ” During” — David Mitchell 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
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. — David Mitchell Fantasy Copy Share Image
“And for What, For What. No matter what you do it will never amount to anything but a single drop in a… — David Mitchell Ocean Copy Share Image
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell Body Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Arguing Copy Share Image
“He also administered the school's corporal punishment known as The Wacks - which I was told, involved being hit with a big… — David Mitchell Corporal punishment Copy Share Image
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of… — David Mitchell Inspiring Copy Share Image
“Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized.” — David Mitchell Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.” — David Mitchell War Copy Share Image
“Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in… — David Mitchell Magna carta Copy Share Image
“As my host slept I had time to wonder where I had been since Suhbataar shot my previous host. Had I hallucinated… — David Mitchell Psychology Copy Share Image
“The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down… — David Mitchell Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“ Act , implores the Ghost of Future Regret. I shan't give you another chance. ” — David Mitchell Another chance Copy Share Image
I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
