The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken.

David Mitchell


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...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

David Mitchell


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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


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But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.

David Mitchell


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Dogs are much crueler than BAFTAs

David Mitchell

Tags: would-i-lie-to-you peep-show



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A rocker rose like Poseidon and flexed his knuckles.

David Mitchell


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Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

David Mitchell

Tags: women war class-struggle



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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

David Mitchell

Tags: music writing self-referential cloud-atlas



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Your employers evince great faith in your talents, Mr Ewing, to entrust you with business neccessitating such a long

David Mitchell


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I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

David Mitchell


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