[When] Johnny Mnemonic was coming out and I realized that all the kids that worked in 7-11 knew more - or thought they knew more - about feature film production than I did. And that was from reading Premiere, that was from this change that came from magazines that treat their readers as players. Magazines that purport to sell you the inside experience.

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

If someone comes in and says, "What are you doing," if I'm honest, the answer is, "I don't know. But I'm doing THIS, don't know why."