“ Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic if anyone ever writes I woke up and it was all a dream at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop… David Mitchell
“ London darkens the map like England's bowel polyp. There is a whole country up here. David Mitchell
“ I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungr… David Mitchell
“ But to what end? Some... future revolution? It can never succeed.As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. David Mitchell
“ But this isn't a ghost story: the ghost is in the background, where she has to be. If she was in the foreground she'd be a person. David Mitchell
“ Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level. David Mitchell
“ Time is the speed at which the past decays, but disneys enable a brief resurrection. David Mitchell
“ The night in question, I had put aside my perpetual lavatory read, , because of all the manuscripts (inedible green tomatoes) submitted to Cavendish-Redux, my new stable of champions. I suppose it was… David Mitchell
“ The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or low. David Mitchell
