william gibson quotes

"And something leaned in... vastness unutterable, from beyond the most distant of anything he'd ever known, or imagined, and touched him."

- Count Zero

"Porphyre followed her to the base of the stairs. He'd stayed near her, during the meal, as though he sensed her new unease. No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was. All the things the drug had fenced away."

- Mona Lisa Overdrive

"'Think of it,' Dialta Downes had said, 'as a kind of alternate America : a 1980 that never happened. An architecture of broken dreams."

- The Gernsback Continuum

"Blue. Tally Isham blue. The clear trademark blue they're famous for, Zeiss Ikon ringing each iris in tiny capitals, the letters suspended there like flecks of gold.

- Burning Chrome