In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell Extinction Copy Share Image
We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing. — David Mitchell Eloquent Copy Share Image
“por qué cualquier dominador teme que sus vasallos adquieran conocimiento. No me atreví a pronunciar la palabra insurrección” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
“A trio of teenagers, dressed like Prostitute Barbie, approached, drift-netting the width of the pavement.” — David Mitchell Teenagers Copy Share Image
“This "Not Today" attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth.” — David Mitchell Attitude Copy Share Image
“Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.” — David Mitchell Declaring war Copy Share Image
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
You say youre depressed - all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't… — David Mitchell Depressed Copy Share Image
“Old Ma Yibber spread the news that Zachry what came down off Mauna Kea weren't the same Zachry what'd gone up, an'… — David Mitchell Change 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 Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Extinction Copy Share Image
“the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He… — David Mitchell Dissolved Copy Share Image
“How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to… — David Mitchell Home Copy Share Image
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in… — David Mitchell Hunger Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Fall in love Copy Share Image
“Then one of them asked why Japanese kids try to ape American kids? The clothes, the rap music, the skateboards, the hair.… — David Mitchell American culture Copy Share Image
“When I was a young man, and the Russkies were going to blow us all to Kingdom Come, we were told we’d… — David Mitchell End of the world Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t write in a void. We work in a physical space, a room, ideally in a house like Laxness’s Gljúfrasteinn, but… — David Mitchell Geography Copy Share Image
“Killing depends on circumstances, as you'd expect, whether it's a cold, planned murder, or a hot death in a fight, or inspired… — David Mitchell Death 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 Copy Share Image
“Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
