If war's first victim is truth, its second is clerical efficiency. — David Mitchell Efficiency Copy Share Image
“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.” — David Mitchell Communication Copy Share Image
War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery. — David Mitchell Auctions Copy Share Image
“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ” — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff. — David Mitchell Happiness Copy Share Image
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. — David Mitchell Density Copy Share Image
“...that human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.” — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Humans Copy Share Image
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind, Meronym said, an any sort o'Smart is truesome Smart, old Smart or new high Smart… — David Mitchell Learning 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 Animal Copy Share Image
“The Icon'ry, Aunt Bees said, held Valleysmen's past an' present all t'gether” — David Mitchell Bees Said Copy Share Image
“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“Was there anything under those lids? Remorse, resentment, even indifference? Or was there only nothing? Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.” — David Mitchell Indifference Copy Share Image
“A handful of gems from Somni: "One's environment is a key to one's identity." "An impulse can be both vaguely understood and… — David Mitchell Identity Copy Share Image
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Animal 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
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world… — David Mitchell Broken Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact,… — David Mitchell Bad news Copy Share Image
“The world won’t leave things be. It’s always injecting endings into beginnings. Leaves tweezer themselves from these weeping willows. Leaves fall into… — David Mitchell Fall out of love Copy Share Image
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes… — David Mitchell All time Copy Share Image
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!… — David Mitchell Balloons Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then… — David Mitchell Cherry blossom Copy Share Image
“The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of… — David Mitchell Modern man Copy Share Image
“Well, Hae-Joo probed, what did I do to relax? I play Go against my sony, I said. "To relax?" he responded, incredulous.… — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
“Old Father Timothy offers this advice to his younger readers, included for free in the price of this memoir: conduct your life… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." -Autua” — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image
“Oh, eerie'n'so beautsome'n'blue she was, my soul was achin'.” — David Mitchell Eerie Copy Share Image
