“ War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. David Mitchell
“ Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods’ consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror. David Mitchell
“ Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword. David Mitchell
“ To quote an early mentor, I tell the kid, ‘A journalist needs ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability. David Mitchell
“ This society doesn't work without booze – our parties aren't good enough, our conversations aren't sufficiently interesting, nor is our self-confidence high enough to sustain our interactions without… David Mitchell
“ This druid feeling I get in the woods’s so thrilling it makes me want to crap, so I dug a hole with a flat stone inside a clump of mitten-leafed shrubs. I pulled down my cacks and squatted. It’s ace s… David Mitchell
“ This Not Today attitude of yours is a cancer. Cancer of the character. It stunts your growth. David Mitchell
“ The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time. David Mitchell
“ The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great Malvern...When the four-minute warning goes off, the Min… David Mitchell
“ The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. David Mitchell
“ The lounge is empty of bodies but full of debris: wineglasses, ashtrays, food wrappers, and a pair of silk boxer shorts over the Boer War rifle David Mitchell
“ The greats? Well, they all share that quality Napoleon most admired in his generals: luck. Be in Kabul when it falls. Be in Manhattan on 9/11. Be in Paris the night Diana’s driver makes his fatal misj… David Mitchell
“ The empowered may serve justice, remodel the Earth, transform lush nations into smoking battlefields, and bring down skyscrapers, but power itself is amoral. David Mitchell
“ The blue jay threads a flight-path through stripes of brightness and stripes of mossy dark. David Mitchell
“ The Cookie Monster is anarchic, dynamic and madly driven by a very specific, but also totally random, aim: he wants cookies. He wants to charge around crazily smashing cookies into his mouth. He will… David Mitchell
“ THE LINES ARE simple enough: Men have imagined republics and principalities that never really existed at all. Yet the way men live is so far removed from the way they ought to live that anyone who aba… David Mitchell
“ 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, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewi… David Mitchell
