When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window.… — David Mitchell Enough Copy Share Image
“Just as I was flung over the threshold, I embraced Grigoire the Swiss Fiancé in a rugger grip, determined that smug cockatoo… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“The Ghost-Girl's lips was fixed in a bitter smile, but her creamy eyes was sad so sad but proud'n'strong too.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It was a morning for Ella Fitzgerald. There are fine things in the world, after all. Dignity, refinement, warmth and humour, where… — David Mitchell Falling in love Copy Share Image
“Niels Bohr, the great Dane of quantum physics, was fond of saying, "It is wrong to think that the task of physics… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
“Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from… — David Mitchell Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“Answering the question 'How would you like to smell?' by saying 'I'd rather I didn't' is also no longer acceptable. It's not… — David Mitchell Back-story Copy Share Image
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself… — David Mitchell Clubs Copy Share Image
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term. — David Mitchell Adversaries Copy Share Image
“...Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Victims aren’t cowards. Outsiders, like, they never have a clue how brave you have to be just to carry on.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“Payday loans: “If you were the sort of person who was ever going to understand compound interest, you wouldn’t be in this… — David Mitchell Compound interest Copy Share Image
This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself. — David Mitchell Masterpiece Copy Share Image
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self,… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods’ consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
