If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
David MitchellTime is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
David MitchellThe her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
David MitchellA life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
David MitchellI have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.
David Mitchell