Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Do spirals end? Or just get so tiny your eyes can’t follow any more?” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.” — David Mitchell Failure Copy Share Image
“These...xistential qualms you suffer, they just mean you're truly human.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“What women want is still what it's always been: either you or, more likely, not you.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down… — David Mitchell Cease to exist Copy Share Image
Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll… — David Mitchell Lying Copy Share Image
“GoogleEarthlike soars his mind, through clouds where snowstorms brew; New York State has dropped away, and Massachusetts flew, and Newfoundland is ice-entombed… — David Mitchell Britain Copy Share Image
“Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out… — David Mitchell Aging Copy Share Image
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self,… — David Mitchell Faith Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Problem was, all this is new. In English at school we study a grammar book by a man named Ronald Rideout, read… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Cynical Copy Share Image
“Marinus is leaning on the railing. "Warehouse number six needs rebuilding; there's a big hole in the seawall behind the guild; Constable… — David Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but… — David Mitchell Creativity Copy Share Image
“Us f’gotten slaves was bein’ drained by hunger’n’pain an’ the mozzies from the slopin’ pond now an’ we was envyin’ that Hawi… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances a dish, but you throw a hill of it inton the pot!… — David Mitchell Beautiful words Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What… — David Mitchell Ethics Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Adulthood Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.” — David Mitchell Temples Copy Share Image
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.” — David Mitchell First kiss Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, "The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...” — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up. — David Mitchell Funny Copy Share Image
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“that's like Vlad the Impaler calling Maggie Thatcher a bit insensitive.” — David Mitchell Insensitive Copy Share Image
“The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sunlight bent around the world, lending fragile color to wildflowers.” — David Mitchell Around the world Copy Share Image
“Knowing what you're doing' largely involves pretending to know what you're doing.” — David Mitchell Confidence-and-attitude Copy Share Image
The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create… — David Mitchell Best way Copy Share Image
“There’s the blind, Mr. Grimaldi, there’s the willfully blind, and then there’s the soon to be retired.” — David Mitchell Blind Copy Share Image
“At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Assured her I’ve never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now, — David Mitchell Intention Copy Share Image
