“He chiseled open the fault lines in the others' personalities.” — David Mitchell Chiseled Copy Share Image
“Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.” — David Mitchell Played Copy Share Image
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
“..tho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.” — David Mitchell Flea Copy Share Image
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. — David Mitchell Feminism Copy Share Image
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.” — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.” — David Mitchell Relationships Copy Share Image
“...Smart'n'Civ'lize ain't nothin' to do with the color o' the skin, nay.” — David Mitchell Racism Copy Share Image
why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most — David Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write… — David Mitchell Every day Copy Share Image
“The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them… — David Mitchell Stem cell 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
... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders… — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Chaos Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Ambiguity Copy Share Image
“Uncle Tarmac says vehicles always resemble their owners, and likes advising my female cousins to judge whether boyfriends will make decent husbands… — David Mitchell Marriage Copy Share Image
“Integrity is a bugger, it really is. Lying can get you into difficulties, but to really wind up in the crappers try… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man… — David Mitchell Dominion Copy Share Image
“If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as… — David Mitchell Humanity 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
“I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or… — David Mitchell Different path 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
“One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the corridor outside, a trolley squeaks by. The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A… — David Mitchell Creeps Copy Share Image
“Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.” — David Mitchell Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
