430 Quotes by William Gibson

Like when you’re young, you figure you’re unique. I was young.

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

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It’s only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. – H. G. WELLS.

History had its fascinations, but could be burdensome.

His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it.

Sleep takes her down fast, and very deep, whirls her through places too fragmentary to call dreams, then spits her abruptly back to the surface.

I don’t think about the real future very much.

Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth, Laney, no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote. Or by voting in presidential elections.