Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.