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

You can get in a cab in Vancouver and the 20-year-old driver speaks more knowingly of Michael Ovitz than anyone in the industry. They just know! And it's perhaps not unhealthy.

The street finds its own uses for things.

The written word still enjoyed a certain prestige here. It was a sluggish country.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.

We see in order to move; we move in order to see.