430 Quotes by William Gibson

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.

This was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care. History there had become a quantity, a rare thing, parceled out by government and preserved by law and corporate funding. Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.

It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Architectural photography can involve a lot of waiting; the building becomes a kind of sundial, while you wait for a shadow to crawl away from a detail you want, or for the mass and balance of the structure to reveal itself in a certain way.

A few stray bits of Lego edged fitfully about among lower strata, like bright rectilinear beetles.

We’re living in a future that’s weirder than anybody except possibly.

My problem is that all things are increasingly interesting to me.

The concrete walls were overlaid with graffiti, years of them twisting into a single metascrawl of rage and frustration.

Ghosts are nothing if not capricious.