Number9Dream Quotes

“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still are.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Reality is the page. Life is the word.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the forest lord counts his trees, he includes you in the number and turns you into a tree.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“The body is the outermost layer of the mind.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“She let him finish her sentences for her for so long that now he starts them too.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Our ancestors built temples for their gods. We build department stores.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“I feel sad that I found what I searched for, but no longer want what I found.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“You look for your meaning. You find it, and at that moment, your meaning changes, and you have to start all over again.”
― David Mitchell, number9dream

“Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“A Muzak version of 'Imagine' comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“This is my moral. Trust what you dream. Not what you think.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Tokyo is too close up to see, sometimes. There are no distances and everything is above your head - dentists, kindergartens, dance studios. Even the roads and walkways are up on murky stilts. An evil-twin Venice with all the water drained away.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time.”
― David Mitchell, Number9dream

“This is how to control entire populations—don’t suppress news, but make it so dumb and dull that nobody has any interest in it.”
― David Mitchell, number9dream

“I emerge into a library/study with the highest book population density I have ever come across. Book walls, book towers, book avenues, book side streets. Book spillages, book rubble. Papperback books, hardback books, atlases, manuals, almanacs. Nine lifetimes of books. Enough books to build an igloo to hide in. The room is sentient with books. Mirrors double and cube the books. A Great Wall of China quantity of books. Enough books to makes me wonder if I am a book too.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream