I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

Things aren't different. Things are things.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

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

Our hardware is likely to turn into something like us a lot faster than we are likely to turn into something like our hardware...I very much doubt that our grandchildren will understand the distinction between that which is a computer and that which isn't.

The 'Net is a waste of time.

We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.