Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others.
~ William Gibson

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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
~ William Gibson

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If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
~ William Gibson

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Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp. Bolt labels on the result. Handles. Then speak of the handles as though they were things in themselves.
~ William Gibson

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Time moves in one direction, memory another.
~ William Gibson

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What people take for relentless minimalism is a side effect of too much exposure to the reactor-cores of fashion.
~ William Gibson

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Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belongs to phones.
~ William Gibson

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