William Gibson Quotes

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

What thou art, that thou art.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

We are what we are.

That which we are, we are.

I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Time is the substance of which we are made

To be rather than to seem.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

I am interested in the nature of things. The nature of something is quite different from the way it looks.

A thing either is what it appears to be; or it is not, but yet appears to be; or it is, but does not appear to be; or it is not, and does not appear to be.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

There is no frontier between being and appearing.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

That which is cannot be true.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.