A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.

The street has its own use for things.

I was afraid to watch 'Blade Runner' in the theater because I was afraid the movie would be better than what I myself had been able to imagine. In a way, I was right to be afraid, because even the first few minutes were better.

[I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.

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

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.