David Mitchell Long Quotations

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.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

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.

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.