430 Quotes by William Gibson

Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fingerling locomotives, yet flexing as she breathed and spoke.

He’d lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he’d almost forgotten what real fear was.

Neighborhoods that mainly operated at night had a way of looking a lot worse in the morning.

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.

Cliches became cliches for a reason; that they usually hold at least a modicum of truth, and the following cliche is truer than most: You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.

But the mind had its own ideas, and Kihn’s opinion of what I was already thinking of as my “sighting” rattled endlessly, through my head in a tight, lopsided orbit. Semiotic ghosts.

I’ve been interested in autism since I’ve known about it, which is more or less since I’ve been writing.

I can’t do fiction unless I visualize what’s going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.

If you fancy resenting the tedious, I recommend intentional communities, particularly those led by charismatics.” “You.