Utopia Avenue Quotes

“reality creeps in wherever you live, however pretty the flowers are, however blue the sky, however great the parties. The only people who actually live in dreams are people in comas.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“it makes you wonder if you’ve actually been living not in the real world but only a description of it.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“Your big mistake,” the bun tells Dean, “is to assume your brain generates a bubble of consciousness you call ‘Me.’ ” “Why is that a mistake?” Dean asks the talking bun. “The truth is that you’re not your own private ‘I.’ You are to consciousness what the flame of a match is to the Milky Way. Your brain only taps into consciousness. You aren’t a broadcaster. You’re a transceiver.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“The ethics of what we do are grey, I admit. But if ethics aren’t grey they aren’t really ethics”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

“Problems tangle up like clothes in a tumble dryer.”
― David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue