David Mitchell Quotes

The only explanation is that my senses, memory, and mind are conspiring against my well-being, and nothing’s scarier than that.

Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.

Why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get...

One's environment is a key to one's identity, but that environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.

Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds

Truth has this habit of changing after the fact, don’t you find?

At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortes'll lay Tenochtitlan to waste again, and later...th...

Mis'ry'n'barrassment are hungersome for blame

Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life.

Do we use the L-word because we mean it, or because we want to kid ourselves into thinking we’re still in that blissful state?

Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.

For White man, life is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more.

We cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Thunder splits the rift where the Sun floods in.

Scholars discern motions of 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...

The world unmakes stuff faster than people can make it.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

Think of Big Mac’s aphorism: In order to have sex, women need to feel loved; but in order for men to feel loved, we need to have sex.