Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. Were dreamers, you see, but were also realists, of a sort. – William Gibson
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. – William Gibson
Its impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. – William Gibson
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg