“My role was to pulse at the edge of the universe of the faithful, alone in the darkness. An outrider. A herald.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all… — David Mitchell Music Copy Share Image
“Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." -Autua” — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up. — David Mitchell Funny Copy Share Image
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. — David Mitchell Footprint Copy Share Image
“Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
“I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to… — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. — David Mitchell Lists Copy Share Image
“There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!” — David Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. — David Mitchell Brave 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
“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We cut a pack of cards called historical context- our generation, Sixsmith, cut tens, jacks and queens. Adrian's cut threes, fours, and… — David Mitchell History 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
“Belief is both prize and battlefield, within the mind and in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
“A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.” — David Mitchell Titus Andronicus Copy Share Image
“If one will just be still, shut up, and listen --lo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in… — David Mitchell Railway station Copy Share Image
