David Mitchell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.”

“When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.”

“Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.”

“I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.”

“I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.”

“My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.”

“You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.”

“Your environment affects you wherever you are.”

“'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?”

“Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.”