...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework. — David Mitchell Firework Copy Share Image
“..one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.” — David Mitchell Environment Copy Share Image
“Her oil-black hair’s sort of punky. She must use gel. I’d love to gel her gel in for her.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.” — David Mitchell Respect Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more tiresome than being told what to admire, and having things pointed at with a stick. -Robert Frobisher” — David Mitchell Lemmings Copy Share Image
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Power is lost or won, never created or destroyed. Power is a visitor to, not a possession of, those it empowers.” — David Mitchell Possession Copy Share Image
Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed! — David Mitchell Deadly sins Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself… — David Mitchell Clubs Copy Share Image
“A handful of gems from Somni: "One's environment is a key to one's identity." "An impulse can be both vaguely understood and… — David Mitchell Identity Copy Share Image
Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
“Was there anything under those lids? Remorse, resentment, even indifference? Or was there only nothing? Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.” — David Mitchell Indifference Copy Share Image
“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We… — David Mitchell Memento mori Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed.… — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
“Controls is about fear, see. If you’re afraid enough of the reprisals, you don’t say no, you don’t fight back, you don’t… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Through the window I looked across the oil-black Tigris at the Green Zone, lit up like Disneyland in Dystopia. I thought about… — David Mitchell Dystopia Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a… — David Mitchell Happiness Copy Share Image
“ Exposition: the workings of the actual past + the virtual past may be illustrated by an event well known to collective… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
“heading to.’ I consider airing my theory that our culture’s coping strategy towards death is to bury it under consumerism and samsara;… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
