Quotes by : China Miéville

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do....

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge....

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.....

It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me....

There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting....

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the....

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.