Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“War's never a picnic. Although obviously soldiers do end up eating outdoors quite a lot.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Preemptive strike,' said Huw, 'must mean not declaring war until your cameras are in position.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
