“ You groan and shake your head, Sixsmith, I know, but you smile too, which is why I love you. David Mitchell
“ Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' 'Gay? A merry activity?' This was hopeless. 'Writing poems is . . . what creeps and p… David Mitchell
“ When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want rows, we want a quiet life. We feel inadequate because we don’t protest and argue… David Mitchell
“ Unglückswurm Olly ist also ein Hörspiel auf Radio 4. Und was bin ich? - Du, Hugo, sie küsst mich aufs Ohrläppchen, bist ein schmutziger französischer Low-Budget-Film, auf den man nachts zufällig im Fe… David Mitchell
“ Ultimately, wars escalate by eating their own shit, shitting bigger and eating bigger. David Mitchell
“ Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-… David Mitchell
“ Tokyo is a model of that serial big-bang theory of the universe. It explodes at five P.M. and people matter is hurled to the suburbs, but by 5 A.M. the people-matter gravity reasserts itself, and ever… David Mitchell
“ These people, I’m afraid, include those who suffer from ‘wheat intolerance’. I know there is such a thing, which can afflict even the sturdiest, most no-nonsense of souls and causes the consumption of… David Mitchell
“ The wheel of seasons is broken, says the spring pattern this autumn day, and so am I. David Mitchell
“ The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilization drive… David Mitchell
“ The present is a battleground . . . where rival what-ifs compete to become the future 'what-is.' How does one what-if prevail over its adversaries? The answer . . . 'Military and political power, of c… David Mitchell
“ The parlor was inhabited by a monstrous hog’s head (afflicted with droop-jaw & lazy-eye), killed by the twins on their sixteenth birthday, & a somnambulant Grandfather clock (at odds with my own pocke… David Mitchell
“ The media—and not just The Washington Post—is where democracies conduct their civil wars. David Mitchell
“ The Dusk follows you as you go through it. If it touches you, you cease to exist, so one wrong turn down a dead end, that’s the end of you. That’s why you have to learn the labyrinth by heart. David Mitchell
