"Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."

“When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.”

Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 213, September 19, 2006.

“Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.”

“Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.”

“The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were only a thin slice among contiguous impressions which formed our life at that time; the memory of a certain image is but regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.”

“For instance, my friend would never go on the show to air her dirty-laundry. But Tremont is outrageous! I've been watching a lot of clips of "The Jerry Springer Show" on YouTube (I can't tell you how many clips there are!) I get to witness these men going through the process to become women and what they're sharing. My character is pre-op. She's had the breast augmentation but still got "the goods" down there.”

“The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.”

Source : Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”

“In a spiritual partnership you learn that wanting what you want is not enough, but that you must both want it deeply and create it every day, that you must bring it into being and hold it in being with your intentions.”

“Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.”

Source : "China Mieville: 'My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give' - interview". Interview with SkellieScar, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2012.