David Mitchell Quotes

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.

Magic is merely normality that you’re not yet used to.

Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.

Love is a big knot of whys.

Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.

She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Marinus blows out a mouthful of air. Did close-range artillery knock any sense into you, or are we staying?

I rarely feel despair, I forget how it gouges.

Странно - размишлява Милтън. - Власт, време, гравитация, любов, Ония сили, които наистина не можеш пребори, са все невидими.

Odd how the wrong stories pop into one's head at my age.

There is no God but the one we dream up.

Deeper’n that it’s this. The savage sat’fies his needs now. He’s hungry, he’ll eat. He’s angry, he’ll knuckly. He’s swellin’, he’ll shoot up a woman. His master is his will, an’ if his will say-soes K...

How improbable must a coincidence be before it's a sign?

I consider how you don’t get to choose whom you’re attracted to, you only get to wonder about it, retrospectively. Racial differences I’ve always found to have an aphrodisiac effect on me, but class d...

Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most. She could not understand it. She could not begin t...

Come now, what's a reviewer? I reasoned. One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...

Modesty is Vanity's craftier stepbrother.