430 Quotes by William Gibson

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.

I felt like a punk who’d gone out to buy a switchblade and come home with a small neutron bomb."Screwed again", I thought. "What good’s a neutron bomb in a streetfight?

I don't know. You might say what I am is basically defined by the fact that I don't know, because I can't know.

You feel like you have emotions, to me.""Where's the line between modeling them and having them, though? But I know I can't just make them go away.

I have often raised an eyebrow at hearing him sing, as I push a cart down some Safeway aisle, of the spiritual complexities induced by he admixture of Cuervo Gold, cocaine, and nineteen-year-old girls (in the hands of a man of, shall we say, a certain age). At which point I look around Frozen Foods and wonder: "Is anyone else hearing this?

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.The Economist, December 4, 2003

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