I 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 MitchellPain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.
David MitchellI rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
David MitchellPeople b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours.
David Mitchell