The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

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

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.

What we're doing pop culturally is like burning the rain forest. The biodiversity of pop culture is really, really in danger.

He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.