The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

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.

His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

We're living in a future that's weirder than anybody except possibly.

Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.