“The heating systems composed works in the style of John Cage.” — David Mitchell Avant garde Copy Share Image
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty... — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're pre-ghostwritten by forces around us.” — David Mitchell Power Copy Share Image
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. — David Mitchell Past Copy Share Image
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment. — David Mitchell Anxiety Copy Share Image
“the elderly are guilty: guilty of proving to us that our willful myopia about death is exactly that. But,” — David Mitchell Death 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
“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.” — David Mitchell Adverbs Copy Share Image
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular.… — David Mitchell Interrogation 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 Flower Copy Share Image
“one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Meni dođe da cijeli ovaj debilni svijet raspalim po njuški, majku mu, pa da ga tabam dok mu napokon ne dođe iz… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Will I be some kid’s dad one day? Are any future people lurking deep inside mine?...Which girl’s carrying the other half of… — David Mitchell Birth Copy Share Image
“Lavender's my favorite scent, after White-Out and bacon rind. I sat down on the steps, not sure where to go next. A… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This druid feeling I get in the woods’s so thrilling it makes me want to crap, so I dug a hole with… — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
“So, I asked ’gain, is it better to be savage’n to be Civ’lized? List’n, savages an’ Civ’lizeds ain’t divvied by tribes or… — David Mitchell Savages Copy Share Image
“Clark Kent gives up his powers just to have sexual intercourse with Lois Lane in a glittery bed. Who’d make such a… — David Mitchell Comic Copy Share Image
“I'm not good with the low-level unexplained. I worry at such things. I'm quite relaxed about the great mysteries of the universe;… — David Mitchell Existence of god Copy Share Image
“Essex raised its ugly head. When i was a scholarship boy at the local grammar, son of a city-hall toiler on the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Svijet je školski ravnatelj koji se bavi tvojim manama. Ne mislim u nekom u nekom mističnom ili Isusovom smislu. Nego prije na… — David Mitchell 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
“Love is the anesthetic applied by Nature to extract babies.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we… — David Mitchell Birth Copy Share Image
“Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just… — David Mitchell Feelings-of-love Copy Share Image
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
