“ Speak to me about power. What is it? I do believe I’m being out-Cambridged. You want me to discuss power? Right here and now? Her shapely head tilts. No time except the present. Okay. Only for a ten.… David Mitchell
“ So we surrender to stupidity, do we? Freedom of speech is sacrificed at the altar of manufactured rage. David Mitchell
“ Photographs make me forget if time is forwards or backwards. No, photographs make me wonder if there is a forwards or backwards. David Mitchell
“ Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us. David Mitchell
“ Matter is thought, and thought is matter. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesized. David Mitchell
“ Love is a blurring of pronouns. Love is subject and object. The difference between its presence and its absence is the difference between life and death. David Mitchell
“ Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. David Mitchell
“ I’d learn betrayals came in various shapes and sizes, but to betray someone’s dream is the unforgivable one. David Mitchell
“ In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a… David Mitchell
“ In order to have sex, women need to feel loved; but in order for men to feel loved, we need to have sex. David Mitchell
“ I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay, babbybies o' blissweed cradled me that night, then the drummin' started up, see… David Mitchell
“ I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them. David Mitchell
