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.

To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.

Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

Damien is a friend. Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.