David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!