430 Quotes by William Gibson

The nature of friendship is such that you never know who will turn out to be your friends, but once you have met them you can’t imagine that you could have gone through life without ever knowing them.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don’t yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

I speak as one who can no longer tolerate that simple state, the cells of my body having opted for the quixotic pursuit of individual careers.

Now that is the real thing, the straight goods from the mass unconscious, friend; that little girl is a witch. There’s just no place for her to function in this society. She’d have seen the devil, if she hadn’t been brought up on The Bionic Man and all those Star Trek reruns.

It’s like wearing your cock ring to meet the pope, and making sure he sees it.

Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect’s antenna.

It’s about atemporality. About opting out of the industrialization of novelty. It’s about deeper code.

I’m happiest with people who’ve gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

A middleman’s business is to make himself a necessary evil.