“'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think i...” — China Mieville Quote

“'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.”

“Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.”

“Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.”

“If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.”

“Conservatives don't love business for some abstract reason. We love it because of what it offers our children. Hope.”

“To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.”