You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency. Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.
You know what your trouble is? You're the kind whoalways reads the handbook. Anything people build,any kind of technology, it's going to have some specificpurpose. It's for doing something that somebo...
You are exhibiting symptoms of urban singles angst. There are cures for this. Drink up. Go.
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.
To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, name...
Time is money, but also money is money.
Things aren't different. Things are things.
They'd run all these tests on him and decided he wasn't racist. He wasn't, either, but not because he thought about it particularly. He just couldn't see the point. It just made for a lot of hassle, b...
They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute...
So now, in her day, he said, they were headed into androgenic, systemic, multiplex, seriously bad shit, like she sort of already knew, figured everybody did, except for people who still said it wasn't...
Personally I like to imagine something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It’s covered wit...
Netherton was watching the intricate texture of her bustier, which resembled a microminiature model of some Victorian cast-iron station roof, its countless tiny panes filmed as by the coal smoke of fi...
I’m not Wintermute now. So what are you. He drank from the flask, feeling nothing. I’m the matrix,
It worked okay.
Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to ge...
He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.
He robbed a bank in Wichita.
Don’t anticipate outcome, the man said. Await the unfolding of events. Remain in the moment.
Do you always wear Malaysian imitations of Brooks Brothers blue oxford button-downs, Mr. Laney? Laney had looked down at his shirt, or tried to.Malaysia?The stitch-count's dead on, but they still have...
CPUs. Cayce Pollard Units. That’s what Damien calls the clothing she wears. CPUs are either black, white, or gray, and ideally seem to have come into this world without human intervention.