It’s a bizarre act of self-mutilation to say that ‘I don’t get on with science fiction and fantasy, therefore I’m never going to read any’. What a shame. All those great books that you’re cutting yourself off from. - David Mitchell
But if you knew about this... conspiracy, why did you cooperate with it? Why did you allow Hae-Joo Im to get so close to you? Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?Tell me.We see an end beyond the endgame. ... - David Mitchell
It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind. - David Mitchell
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. - David Mitchell
Men merry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry man hoping they will. - David Mitchell
True metamorphosis doesn't come with flowcharts - David Mitchell
Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo. - David Mitchell
I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through. - David Mitchell
I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said. - David Mitchell
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning. - David Mitchell
The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane. - David Mitchell
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace.""It doesn't feel very all right.""That's because it's not the end. - David Mitchell
I watched the stars and thought of other lives. - David Mitchell
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. - David Mitchell
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits theground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!. - David Mitchell
In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won’t have heard of him because you’re a musical oaf, but he’s one of the greats. - David Mitchell