I worry about what we'll do in the future, [about the instantaneous co-opting of pop culture]. Where is our new stuff going to come from?

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

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

The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

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