Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years. — David Mitchell Peace Copy Share Image
“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.” — David Mitchell Character Copy Share Image
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. — David Mitchell Caves Copy Share Image
“You underestimate humanity's ability to bring such evil into being.” — David Mitchell Evil Copy Share Image
“That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities.” — David Mitchell Fidelity Copy Share Image
“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.” — David Mitchell Earliest memories Copy Share Image
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent… — David Mitchell Father Copy Share Image
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I. Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi:… — David Mitchell Good enough Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Human condition Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Those were the terms in which my parents, keen for me to grow up well grounded in cynicism, explained things to me.… — David Mitchell Cynicism Copy Share Image
“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices.… — David Mitchell China Copy Share Image
“I’m not in the Scouts anymore,” I remind her. Mr. Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and… — David Mitchell Following orders Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s… — David Mitchell Military police Copy Share Image
“Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Adam and eve Copy Share Image
“Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime — David Mitchell Apocalypse Copy Share Image
“Your place does keep you sane, but can also keep you lonely.” — David Mitchell Loneliness Copy Share Image
