“ Or, if he’s feeling more poetic, it might be Now, Frobisher, the clarinet is the concubine, the violas are yew trees in the cemetery, the clavichord is the moon, so … let the east wind blow that A min… David Mitchell
“ Mum said I’d learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone’s dream is the unforgivable one. David Mitchell
“ Maailma ei lakkaa purkamasta sitä minkä on rakentanut. Miksi maailmassa pitäisi olla järkeä? David Mitchell
“ If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and… David Mitchell
“ I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance. David Mitchell
“ Earlier, I stepped on a squid that had propelled itself over the bulwarks! (Its eyes & beak reminded me of my father-in-law.) David Mitchell
“ Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine. David Mitchell
“ As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. David Mitchell
“ Si nos convencemos de que la humanidad puede trascender colmillos y garras, si nos convencemos de que las diversas razas y credos pueden compartir pacíficamente la tierra, (...)si nos convencemos de q… David Mitchell
“ You imagine blank verse is a liberation, but no. Discard rhyme, you discard a parachute... David Mitchell
“ Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them. David Mitchell
