His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.
William GibsonIt's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William GibsonSomewhere, deep within her, surfaces a tiny clockwork submarine. There are times when you can only take the next step. And then another.
William GibsonAll we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
William GibsonHollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.
William GibsonIn effect, I grew up in a sort of timewarp, a place where times are scrambled up. There are elements of my childhood that look to me now, in memory more like the 1940s or the 1950s than the 1960s. Jack [Womack] says that that made us science fiction writers, because we grew up experiencing a kind of time travel.
William Gibson