David Mitchell Quotes

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

You will never learn what I am thinking. And those who boast most loudly that they know my thought, to such people I lie even more.

But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

Power expands through the distribution of secrecy.

Somebody is always hiding something.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Secrecy is the foundation of politics.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

What cults offer is an inside track of what’s going on in the world.

Keeping secrets is hard.

I try to keep everything under wraps. Everything I can do to make sure people don't know what they're getting themselves into, I will do it.

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

Everyone has secrets. Especially me.

His gaze was a lot steadier than her heartbeat. “She’s the reason for those whispered phone calls I used to overhear, isn’t she?” “Don’t be silly. I was talking to my lover.” “She told me she lives at a place called Brookdale. After I hung up, I did a little research on the Web. Your talent for obfuscation continues to amaze me.” “Hey, I haven’t obfuscated in weeks. Makes you go blind.

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.