W. H. Gibson Quotes

Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

The future is here - it just has not been uniformly distributed.

The street has its own use for things.

I don't think about the real future very much.

Novels set in imaginary futures are necessarily about the moment in which they are written.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

Somehow I think that if Toronto had been forced to wait a decade [from 80th], it would be a better looking city.

We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played us a mighty dub.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.

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

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.

All the speed he took, all the turns he'd taken and the corners he'd cut in Night City, and still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void.

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed.

Time is money, but also money is money.

It doesn't matter how fast your modem is if you're being shelled by ethnic separatists.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

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

This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.

I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

I have this prejudice that trilogies are long, three-volume novels.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.

Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.

Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling likethey're falling in love with the ground.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever

I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.

Just because you refuse to acknowledge something, refuse to look at it or think about it, doesn’t mean it’s not there, that it doesn’t affect you and the choices you make in your life.

I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn’t.- Hope

Give me some sugar.

I didn’t mean to fall in love with you, but I did.- Chelsea

You want the fairy tale." "I want a chance at it.

Snowball?"It's white."Meow."It's so girly."This from a guy who named his poodle Princess."his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?"Your sister told me.

If ever there was something she needed to stick around and fight for, Luc was that something.

Devon Hamilton-Zemaitis was a beautiful woman. Being dead didn't change that.

Kiss me, babe."'"No, really." Beneath the light of a sixty-watt bulb on her porch, Adele Harris placed a hand on the chest of her latest date. "I've had enough excitement for one night.

Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

He’d spent so much time in the penalty box for fighting last season, he’d been tempted to hang a picture and maybe set up a lava lamp, it had felt so much like home

Max looked around. "Where's your mutt?""Right here, asleep. He won't bite you again. I've talked to him about it, and he's really sorry

To be a devout reader was to be an acolyte of solace.

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distri

A greater love was always with me. Guiding me and waiting for me to surrender myself so that the glory of grief could bring me back to joy, where it greeted me once again.” - Just Be

I had no idea that I was…destroying people.