“ There’s lying, says Mum, fishing out the envelope she wrote the directions on from her handbag, which is wrong, and there’s creating the right impression, which is necessary. David Mitchell
“ There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else! David Mitchell
“ 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 David Mitchell
“ The world’s twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal. David Mitchell
“ The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature. David Mitchell
“ The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something …’ David Mitchell
“ The days when I had that kind of spondulics at my beck and call are gone, gone, gone! Our house is mortgaged, twice over! David Mitchell
“ That love loves fidelity, she riposted, is a myth woven by men from their insecurities. David Mitchell
“ Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, and though a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud and so is a soul. David Mitchell
“ Sometimes, Brubeck bites into an apple, sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just … Brubeck mimes a bomb going off in his ribcage. Do you never get that feeling? David Mitchell
“ She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as beautiful and pure as that. Real things had happened to her to make her how sh… David Mitchell
“ She didn’t tell me to use a condom, so I didn’t: a bit of a risk, but it’s her risk, not mine, David Mitchell
“ Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret,… David Mitchell
“ Places change you, Miss Timms, and deserts change us pale northerners so much, our own mothers wouldn’t recognize us. David Mitchell
