William Gibson Quotes

“If J.G. Ballard had been on Twitter, I doubt he'd have cat-posted. Wm. S. Burroughs, on the other hand, probably would have. He loved cats. I received Christmas cards from Burroughs. All were cute cat cards.”
― William Gibson

“Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?"
"What?"
"Half-imaginary.”
― William Gibson

“Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

“[R]idicule is the radical's best weapon. The powers that be can stand anything but being laughed at.”
― Bruce Sterling, Distraction