William Gibson Quotes About Age

• Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

  William Gibson

  Age, Doe, Mortality

  "Why William Gibson Distrusts Aging Futurists’ Nostalgia". Interview with Seth Dickinson, www.wired.com. February 8, 2012.

• It's an American thing, but it's particularly a southern thing, and its romanticization is hyper-Southern. And it's still irresistible to me, even in middle age. There's something that pulls me to that, but at the same time, I have this increasing awareness of how banal it really is - that evil is inherently banal.

  William Gibson

  Evil, Southern, Age

  Fuente: craphound.com

• When I come to a new city is I combine: I say, well, it's like Barcelona and Edinburgh, though I can't imagine what that would be. But Toronto, the last few times I've been here, what always comes up is Chicago and West Berlin. It's a big, sprawling city beside a lake, of a certain age and a certain architectural complexity. But the high-end retail core looks more like West Germany than the Magnificent Mile. Yonge Street is like K-Damm. There's an excess of surface marble and bronze: it's Germanic and as pretentious as pretentious can be.

  William Gibson

  Lakes, West Germany, Cities

  Fuente: craphound.com

• We live in an age of seriously crap mass clothing. They've made a science of it.

  William Gibson

  Age, Mass, Made

  Source: www.heddels.com

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