Simonfletcher

“Look around. Walk. Find a cheap bed. Eat what the locals eat. Find a cheap beer. Try not to get fleeced. Talk. Pick up a few words in the local lingo. Just BE there, y'know? Sometimes," Brubeck bites into an apple, "Sometimes I want to be everywhere, all at once, so badly I could just...Do you ever get that feeling?”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Not a clue – and, no, I don’t touch drugs. The world’s unstable enough without scrambling your brain for kicks.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“The purpose of theology—the purpose of any thinking about God—is to make the silences clearer and starker to us, to make the unmeaning—by which I mean those aspects of the divine that will not be reduced to human meanings—more irreducible and more terrible, and thus ultimately more wonderful. This is why art is so often better at theology than theology is.”
― Josh Larsen, Movies Are Prayers: How Films Voice Our Deepest Longings

“Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks