“ Lip-chewed debtors rich in excuses; heard-it-all creditors tightening nooses; prisoners haunted by happier lives and ageing rakes by other men’s wives; skeletal tutors goaded to fits; firemen-turned-l… David Mitchell
“ La verdadera adquisición de conocimiento no se limitaba a la lectura, que el conocimiento sin experiencia era como la comida sin sustancia. David Mitchell
“ Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long & arduous voyage. I replied that, yes, I was a senior enough notary to be entrusted… David Mitchell
“ Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.More what? I asked. Old Uns'd… David Mitchell
“ Why do things at all? What is it that stops the world simply . . . seizing up?. . . . Do you know?. . . . I don't know the answer, no. Sometimes I think it's the only question, and that all the other… David Mitchell
“ When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I’d be one day to look inside it. David Mitchell
“ What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations – millennia – to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub thems… David Mitchell
“ No entiendo cómo no te diste cuenta de que se trataba de una idea descabellada.Todas las revoluciones son una idea descabellada hasta que suceden; entonces se convierten en realidades históricas inevi… David Mitchell
“ I watched clouds awobbly from the floor o’ that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an’ tho’ a cloud’s shape nor hue nor size don’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud an’ so is a soul. Who… David Mitchell
“ I made it to Boxing Day because I was too miserable to hang myself. I lie. I made it to Boxing Day because I was too cowardly to hang myself. David Mitchell
“ I loved Vinny like he was a part of me, and he loved me like a stick of gum. He’d spat me out when the flavor went, unwrapped another, and stuffed it in, and not just anyone, but Stella Yearwood. My b… David Mitchell
“ I emerge into a library/study with the highest book population density I have ever come across. Book walls, book towers, book avenues, book side streets. Book spillages, book rubble. Papperback books,… David Mitchell
“ During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same. David Mitchell
“ Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was… David Mitchell
“ Beg pardon? I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into. David Mitchell
“ Beautiful words ruin your poetry. A touch of beauty enhances a dish, but you throw a hill of it inton the pot! No, the palate becomes nauseous. You belief a poem must be beautiful, or it can have no e… David Mitchell
“ Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well as reads it, its layout, its paragraphs and structure, and "remembers" what it just read becau… David Mitchell
“ They've given Harry the attributes of pistachio nuts and crack cocaine without the health risks (opening thousands of pistachio nuts can cause severe thumb-bruising, I can tell you from bitter experie… David Mitchell
“ It’s like the British in Ireland in 1916’ , says Oisir O’Dowd. ‘The repeated the ageless macho mantra, “Force is the only thing these natives understand,” so often that they ended up believing it . Fr… David Mitchell
