David Mitchell

What is "poker"?

A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

I became a scientist because... it's like panning for gold in a muddy torrent. Truth is the gold.

Anything is true if enough people believe it is.

Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

Your version of the truth is the only one that matters.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

Fantasy. Lunacy.

All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

A Soul's value is the dollars therein.

Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

[...] in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights," the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.

Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sayin', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds.

You speak like an aesthete sometimes, Sonmi.

Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively.

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.