China Mieville Quotes

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

The more I see the less I know for sure.

But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

The best advice I've ever received is, 'No one else knows what they're doing either.

There's a lot of people scared of me, and I can't blame them. They call me crazy so much I think I'm starting to believe them.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

Just because they really are out to get you doesn't mean you aren't paranoid.

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.

I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave.