The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms. — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“The only explanation is that my senses, memory, and mind are conspiring against my well-being, and nothing’s scarier than that.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Time is an ever-fleeting presence, to capture even a slice of it yields a wealth to having lived. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Auction Copy Share Image
The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“the First Rule of Parenting states that you never wake a peacefully sleeping child.” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it… — David Mitchell Creation Copy Share Image
“all leaders can sense what people’re afraid of and turn that fear into bows and arrows and muskets and grenades and nukes… — David Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?' 'Who?' 'Um . . .' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“Other nights, Ayrs likes me to read him poetry, especially his beloved Keats. He whispers the verses as I recite, as if… — David Mitchell Poetry Copy Share Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams… — David Mitchell Day and night Copy Share Image
“I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended… — David Mitchell Advice Copy Share Image
“People’re a nestful of needs. Dull needs, sharp needs, bottomless-pit needs, flash-in-the-pan needs, needs for things you can’t hold, needs for things… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Appetite Copy Share Image
“So I telled her my 'maginin's o' places from old books'n'pics in the school'ry. Lands where the Fall'd never falled, towns bigger'n… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I wonder what happened to him, I wonder what happened to all of them, this wondering is the nature of matter, each… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with shelves of porcelain antiques, etc. that moving… — David Mitchell Dreams Copy Share Image
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“I watched clouds awobbly from the floor ' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Human life, Borges said, is a cascade of possible directions, and we take only one, or we perceive that we take only… — David Mitchell Blank page Copy Share Image
“Ayrs let long moments fall away. ‘You’re young, Frobisher, you’re rich, you’ve got a brain, and by all accounts you’re not wholly… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too. — David Mitchell Humans Copy Share Image
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs. — David Mitchell Hooves Copy Share Image
