Secrets...are the very root of cool.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

If there's a movie of Neuromancer, what I really want the special effects guys to do is make you see, from Case's point of view, the little acid giggies: the little lines and trails coming off of things.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

When I start writing a new imaginary future, I have no idea what it is. The characters arrive first. They help me figure out where they are living and I get to fill in the gaps with that and where we are. So when I get to the end of the process of composition, if I feel that I have really done my job, I have no idea what I've got - and I then spend essentially the rest of my life figuring out what it might mean.

I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others