“ Sawing the head off a thunder god with a rusty hacksaw is not easy when you are eleven years old. David Mitchell
“ People talk about the Endarkenment like our ancestors talked about the Black Death, as if it’s an act of God. But we summoned it, with every tank of oil we burned our way through. My generation were d… David Mitchell
“ People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function. David Mitchell
“ Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man has refined & evolved the gunpowder sciences until our modern armies may fiel… David Mitchell
“ Orito pictures the human mind as a loom that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception. David Mitchell
“ Only one-tenth of what you write will make it into your manuscript, but when you knock on that tenth – I rap my knuckles on the table – you’ll hear oaken solidity, not sawdust and glue. David Mitchell
“ One loses one's eye in the lanes of sea phosphorescence & the Mississippi of stars streaming across the heavens. David Mitchell
“ One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a Greenwich avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those Regency residences number amount London's… David Mitchell
“ Now smoking really is an expression of the rebel spirit—it’s virtually sodding illegal! Yet what are we without our addictions? Insipid. Flavorless. Careerless! David Mitchell
“ Never done anything yourself, have yer? Never performed live to a real audience, have yer?' 'Nor have I fucked a donkey, destabilized a Central American state, or played Dungeons & Dragons,' retorts C… David Mitchell
“ Music leaks out of the Walkman, and a saxophone from long ago circles in the air, so sad it could barely leave the ground. David Mitchell
“ Most yarnin's got a bit o' true, some yarnin's got some true, an' a few yarnin's got a lot o' true. David Mitchell
“ Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat. Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me. But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe me. The human world is made up of stories, not people. David Mitchell
“ Like a shiny silver pinball whizzing out of the firing lane, I’ve not got the faintest bloody clue where I’m going or what’ll happen next. David Mitchell
“ I’m not in the Scouts any more,’ I remind her. Mr Moody our scoutmaster told me to get lost, so I did, and it took the Snowdonia mountain rescue service two days to find my shelter. David Mitchell
