“ In a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only rights, the only law, are wh… David Mitchell
“ Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me. David Mitchell
“ Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage. David Mitchell
“ She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman. David Mitchell
“ Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better. David Mitchell
“ I'm not good with the low-level unexplained. I worry at such things. I'm quite relaxed about the great mysteries of the universe; when it comes to the existence of God, for example, I figure that, as… David Mitchell
“ I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosu… David Mitchell
“ Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just the same. David Mitchell
