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

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.

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

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

There's an idea called "gray man", in the security business, that I find interesting. They teach people to dress unobtrusively. Chinos instead of combat pants, and if you really need the extra pockets, a better design conceals them. They assume, actually, that the bad guys will shoot all the guys wearing combat pants first, just to be sure.

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