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“I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.”
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“The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your own sense of the world and of yourself. Great art changes you.”
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“Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.”
Source : "She Is Away". Poem by Kenneth Rexroth. "In Defense of the Earth". Book by Kenneth Rexroth, www-personal.umich.edu. 1956. 
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“I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.”
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“When you're literally carrying a child you can cut back on bad habits.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
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“I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.”
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“And I love to cook! I've impressed hundreds of women with my cooking. And they always come back for more.”
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“First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.”
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“Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.”
Source : "A life in writing: China Miéville" by Justine Jordan, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.
