“ If you don’t want the fish, why do you catch them? A few seconds pass. For the quality of the conversation. David Mitchell
“ If you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one. David Mitchell
“ …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. David Mitchell
“ Teachers're always using that in your own words. I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'pose… David Mitchell
“ Scholars discern motions in history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs contrary, however. To wit: history admits no rules, only outcome… David Mitchell
“ Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time. David Mitchell
“ Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who abandons what ‘is’ for what ‘sho… David Mitchell
