“You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.” — David Mitchell Respect Copy Share Image
“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew… — David Mitchell Dance Copy Share Image
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they… — David Mitchell Rewriting history Copy Share Image
“an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now, — David Mitchell Intention Copy Share Image
“One moment you're carrying this loveable little tyke on your shoulders, the next she's off, and you realize what you suspected all… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , because… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“...and there, in the background, the brite spring sky's sediment had sunk to a dark band of blue. Ah, it mesmerized me...like… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
“Your life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean." "Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of… — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
“Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.” — David Mitchell First kiss Copy Share Image
“Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows… — David Mitchell Nobody knows Copy Share Image
“..one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.” — David Mitchell Environment Copy Share Image
“When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want… — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they… — David Mitchell Cell phones Copy Share Image
“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that… — David Mitchell Bloody Copy Share Image
