Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

- David Mitchell

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

- David Mitchell

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

- David Mitchell

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just me…

- David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

- David Mitchell

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

- David Mitchell

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

- David Mitchell

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

- David Mitchell

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting f…

- David Mitchell