William Gibson Quotes

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description.

Somewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

Enlightenment is "being," and it grows; it's end is serenity.

Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television.

Every shop in every High Street in Europe is filled with basically the same stuff. There's a street in every city of the world that has a Gap and Benneton's, and the upscale versions of those.

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery.

His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.

The present tense made him nervous.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

The prefix cyber is going the way of the prefix electro.

I'm embarrassed if I think anyone knows exactly what I paid for something, or even where I got it. I want what I'm wearing to feel good on, wear well, and to be extremely functional.

I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

I'm not the only one: witness Pokemon! They still keep coming up with this stuff that just rivets us in unexpected areas.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

I'm quite good friends with the putative director, Vincenzo Natali, and I'm a big fan of his work, but beyond that, I don't like to talk about other people's work work-in-progress.

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

It seems as though everyone is going to the currency of celebrity. Everyone's getting their own account of whatever that currency is. That's something neat.

A lot of the buildings [in Toronto] around Yonge and Bloor is the architectural equivalent of Kipper Ties and 8" collar points. It's ghastly and no amount of street-level retail glitz can lift it.

I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything.

The experience of celebrity is gradually being democratized.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.