“ The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water. J.G. Ballard
“ Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth. J.G. Ballard
“ The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. J.G. Ballard
“ Kandinski looked up. 'Do you read science fiction?' he asked matter-of-factly.'Not as a rule,' Ward admitted. When Kandinski said nothing he went on: 'Perhaps I’m too skeptical, but I can’t take it to… J.G. Ballard
“ Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea that there's something interesting in their lives. It's musical chairs in reverse..... All the upgrade… J.G. Ballard
“ As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of life was m… J.G. Ballard
“ Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves? J.G. Ballard
“ In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g. J.G. Ballard
“ Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodising over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in you… J.G. Ballard
“ Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perve… J.G. Ballard
“ Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all. J.G. Ballard
“ ...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about w… J.G. Ballard
“ First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it’s important that first marriages go wrong. That’s how we learn the truth about ourselves. J.G. Ballard
“ If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultim… J.G. Ballard
“ The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system. J.G. Ballard
“ Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified fun… J.G. Ballard
“ Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence… J.G. Ballard
