“ At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds. David Mitchell
“ A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice. David Mitchell
“ The Rottnest Light is a stumpy middle finger sticking up from the a rocky rise, grunting, Sit on this, mate. David Mitchell
“ Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it. David Mitchell
“ Both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many a… David Mitchell
“ In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of… David Mitchell
“ Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks. David Mitchell
“ Rootlessness, I opine, is the twenty-first century norm.You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere? David Mitchell
“ People pontificate, Suicide is selfishness. Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade finge… David Mitchell
“ Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Don’t recall its name, but ever since a disciple o… David Mitchell
“ Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor. David Mitchell
“ What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character? David Mitchell
“ Mental maps. Maps with edges. And for Auden, for so many of us, it's the edges of the maps that fascinate... David Mitchell
