“ Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking down from amongst exfoliation apostles, dreaming of being with her. David Mitchell
“ Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew over our peachy sheen; beat-by-beat-by-beat-by-beat-by-beat-by-beat, vari… David Mitchell
“ Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a warm, dry car driven by a loved one - or a hired one, it matters not - to take you home. David Mitchell
“ But it's the feeling of love that we love, not the person.It's that giddy exhilaration I just experienced, just now.The feeling of being chosen and desired and cared about.It's pretty pathetic when yo… David Mitchell
“ But 'luckily,' the train before mine was so late that it still hadn't departed, All the seats were taken, and I had to squeeze into a three-inch slot. I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but… David Mitchell
“ Bury the hatchet. Hatchets don't work on ghosts. They cannot hear you. You only end up hatcheting yourself. David Mitchell
“ Boundaries between noise and sound are conventions, I see now. All boundaries are conventions, national ones too. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. David Mitchell
“ Behold your future, Cavendish the Younger. You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with the world's. This slippage will stretch… David Mitchell
“ All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality. David Mitchell
“ Air in the chateau clammy like laundry that won't dry. Door-banging drafts down the passageways. Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying… David Mitchell
“ After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not done since my ill-starred Tintagel honeymoon with Madame X. David Mitchell
“ A journalist marries the news, Seymour. She’s capricious, cruel, and jealous. She demands you follow her to wherever on Earth life is cheapest, where she’ll stay a day or two, then jet off. You, your… David Mitchell
“ A dragonfly settles on a bulrush an inch from my nose. Its wings are like cellophane and Jonah says, Its wings are like cellophane, and I say, I was just thinking that, but Jonah says, Just thinking w… David Mitchell
“ A clock with no hands. Freedom! is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is. A David Mitchell
“ A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled. David Mitchell
“ But it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner pu… David Mitchell
“ & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops? David Mitchell
“ One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human s… David Mitchell
