David Mitchell Quotes

Sitting under the candlenut tree in the courtyard is pleasant in the afternoon. Laced in shadows, frangipani & coral hibiscus ward away the memory of recent evil. The sisters go about their duties, Si...

If your words're true, they're armed.

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the...

I remain thankful to God for all his mercies.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

I pitched my voice for Dirty Harry, but it was more Lisping Baggins.

Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

And there, in the background, the brite spring sky's sediment had sunk to a dark band of blue. Ah, it mesmerized me...like the snow had done. All the woe of the words, I am seemed dissolved there, pai...

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?

After the nuclear war, kids like them’ll rule what’s left. It’ll be hell.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Wo...

Was there anything under those lids? Remorse, resentment, even indifference? Or was there only nothing? Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.

Then the three of us hug, and if I could choose on moment of my life to sit inside of for the rest of eternity...it'd be now, no question.

My in-ear Babelfish provides synopses of the passages rather than a running translation, but now and then the interpreter confesses, I’m sorry, but I have no idea what he just said. I’m not sure the a...

Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn′t fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we c...

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

With a story, as with a well-chosen gift, we’re happiest when surprised by something we didn’t know we wanted.