Quotes About Mieville

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

I'm a very friendly socialist.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.

Do please," said Captain Naphi, "expedite this journey relevance-ward.

Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out of fidelity to the letter L. Partly because given the choice between nonsense and boojy wittering you blatantly have to choose nonsense.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside what it was?

As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.

This is called data mining." She said the last words in English. "Which of us is the canary?

A rage. Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war. Baron was

His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell.

I still prefer 'pre-Cleavage' but it makes an unfortunate pun in English

almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.

I paid it nuts, Billy. What would you think I'd pay a squirrel?

What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry.

In the post-blast miasma, all Parisians grew invisible organs that flex in the presence of the marvelous.

That's what gets converts these days, " Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.