My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of… — David Mitchell Inspiring Copy Share Image
“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.” — David Mitchell Fantasy Copy Share Image
“One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens.” — David Mitchell Astronomy Copy Share Image
“My soul may be stoned an' my luck may be rotted but I can still cuss a cuss” — David Mitchell Spirituality Copy Share Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present. — David Mitchell Ancestor Copy Share Image
“and then we hear a noise like … a town being dropped, and everything in it smashing to bits.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Novelists don’t have answers and ones that do I'm not sure you should trust.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Victims aren’t cowards. Outsiders, like, they never have a clue how brave you have to be just to carry on.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself… — David Mitchell Civilisation Copy Share Image
There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“My recent adventures have made me quite the philosopher, especially at night, when I hear naught but the stream grinding boulders into… — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
“In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli.… — David Mitchell Kings Copy Share Image
“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth …… — David Mitchell Butterfly Copy Share Image
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will… — David Mitchell Giving Copy Share Image
“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is… — David Mitchell Metaphysics Copy Share Image
“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Just as I was flung over the threshold, I embraced Grigoire the Swiss Fiancé in a rugger grip, determined that smug cockatoo… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away… — David Mitchell Sister Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, in Japan, when mother, or baby, or mother and baby die in childbirth, people say, ‘Ah…they die because gods decide so.’… — David Mitchell Bad karma Copy Share Image
Power. What do we mean? 'The ability to determine another man's luck.' ...how is it that some men attain mastery over others… — David Mitchell Ability 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
“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
“Preacher, of all the world's races, our love- or rather our rapacity-for treasure, gold, spices, and dominion, oh, most of all, sweet… — David Mitchell Dominion Copy Share Image
“an' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People outsourced their memories to data centers and basic skills to tabs.” — David Mitchell Data Copy Share Image
“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.” — David Mitchell Food Copy Share Image
“I pitched my voice for Dirty Harry, but it was more Lisping Baggins.” — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
“Storytellers are not priests who commune with an ethereal realm but artisans, like dumpling makers, if somewhat slower.” — David Mitchell Storytellers Copy Share Image
“I got a six'n'six so maybe my luck was healin', so I thinked, fool o' fate what I am, yay, what we… — David Mitchell Luck Copy Share Image
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. — David Mitchell Generations Copy Share Image
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't… — David Mitchell Bookshops Copy Share Image
“I find geriatric prodigies much more interesting than child prodigies” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“To get the crowd to cry Hosanna, you must first ride to town on an ass.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Summer has taken a sensuous turn: Ayrs’s wife and I are lovers. Don’t alarm yourself! Only in the carnal sense.” — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“Rights are susceptible to subversion, as even granite is susceptible to erosion.” — David Mitchell Erosion Copy Share Image
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I am designing the future on beer mats, like Churchill and Stalin at Yalta.” — David Mitchell Beer Copy Share Image
“A whoah game it was, said Catkin, but I din’t want to know its rules nor endin’.” — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
