“that's like Vlad the Impaler calling Maggie Thatcher a bit insensitive.” — David Mitchell Insensitive 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
“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
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
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
“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.” — David Mitchell Temples 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
“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
“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
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
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
... 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler… — David Mitchell Archivists Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Quantum physics speaks in chance, with the syntax of uncertainty. You can know the position of an electron but you cannot know… — David Mitchell Physics Copy Share Image
“Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
“Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“We create models to explain nature, but the models wind u gate-crashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants. In my lecturing… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“Oh, eerie'n'so beautsome'n'blue she was, my soul was achin'.” — David Mitchell Eerie Copy Share Image
