The future is not Google-able.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience. But I was very careful to bury them deeply, deeply in the plaster and paint over them. I didn't want anybody to directly access them, and that's gradually changed for me.

Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.

I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.