“People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up. — 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
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it? — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People b'lief the world is built so an tellin em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms,… — 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
