As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.
David MitchellIve never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
David MitchellHuman beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.
David MitchellMother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books donโt offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
David Mitchell