David Mitchell (author)

"But it's been done a hundred times before!" -- As if there could be anything not done a hundred thousand times between Aristophanes and Andrew Void Webber! As if Art is the What, not the How!"

"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage."

"A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living."

"Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute."

"Whoever dies with the most stuff wins."

"That love loves fidelity a myth woven by men from their insecurities."

"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."

"Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience."