“You can improve an incoherent mess, but you can't improve nothing” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“You'd think old age was a criminal offense, not a destination we're all heading to.” — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously. — David Mitchell Feminism Copy Share Image
“..tho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Music leaks out of the Walkman, and a saxophone from long ago circles in the air, so sad it could barely leave… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn’t need a why. Who or even what is ample.” — david mitchell Israel Copy Share Image
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent… — David Mitchell Flaunting Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
“What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good… — David Mitchell Good intentions Copy Share Image
“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right… — david mitchell Music Copy Share Image
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us… — David Mitchell Creation Copy Share Image
“My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to… — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image
Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me &… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The world won’t leave things be. It’s always injecting endings into beginnings. Leaves tweezer themselves from these weeping willows. Leaves fall into… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“As my host slept I had time to wonder where I had been since Suhbataar shot my previous host. Had I hallucinated… — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“Finished in a frenzy that reminded me of our last night in Cambridge. Watched my final sunrise. Enjoyed a last cigarette. Didn’t… — David Mitchell Another world Copy Share Image
If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Let me write about an Icelandic road trip; a running man; backflashes galore; and slowly disclose what it is he’s running from.… — David Mitchell Road trip Copy Share Image
“…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all… — David Mitchell Confidence Copy Share Image
“You fanfare your 'Information Revolution', your email, your email, your vid cons! As if information itself is thought! You have no idea… — David Mitchell Data Copy Share Image
