“After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.” — David Mitchell Existentialism Copy Share Image
“La risata è anarchia e blasfema. I tiranni fanno bene a temerla.” — David Mitchell Amor Copy Share Image
“What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?” — David Mitchell Human heart Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Cruelty Copy Share Image
“My role was to pulse at the edge of the universe of the faithful, alone in the darkness. An outrider. A herald.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“...his deceased wife, watches her husband from the photograph on his console desk.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens. — David Mitchell Being Copy Share Image
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!” — David Mitchell Change Copy Share Image
“People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.” — David Mitchell Aftermath Copy Share Image
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be.… — David Mitchell Cheating Copy Share Image
“She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as… — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“He was doing quite well until the last sentence, but if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Southly thru shrubby heath we tromped now till we got to wideway. Wideway I'd heard o' from storymen an' here it was,… — David Mitchell Health Copy Share Image
Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I’d always worried but kissing’s not so tricky. Your lips know what to do, just like sea anenomes know what to do.… — David Mitchell First kiss Copy Share Image
“I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I watched the All-Blacks score three tries against England, and formulated the Marco Chance versus Fate Videoed Sports Match Analogy. It goes… — David Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
“Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker,… — David Mitchell Absurd Copy Share Image
“Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been… — David Mitchell Construction work Copy Share Image
“Consider this, Mr. D’Arnoq urged us. Two thousand savages (Mr. Evans’s best guess) enshrine “Thou Shalt Not Kill” in word & in… — David Mitchell Magna carta Copy Share Image
“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled… — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled… — David Mitchell Tokyo Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“What's wrong, de Zoet? You look like your breeches are beshatten.” — David Mitchell Breeches Copy Share Image
“Oh, eerie'n'so beautsome'n'blue she was, my soul was achin'.” — David Mitchell Eerie Copy Share Image
“Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." -Autua” — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image