One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy

The street finds its own uses for things.

I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

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.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.