Utopia Avenue

by David Mitchell

You’re born alone, you die alone, and for most of what lies between, you are alone.

Suffering is the promise that life always keeps.

“Paradise is the road to Paradise,”

If reason worked on alcoholics, there’d be no alcoholics.

“It’s easy being the Enlightened One about other people’s families.”

Victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan.

“We’ll only do it if Dean says yes.”