“In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is alright.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs. "One rule in life", he… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“We have annexed the future into the present, as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us. Options multiply around us,… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances,… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“(Logically–for what had a more gloomy prognosis than life?–every morning one should say to one's friends: 'I grieve for your irrevocable death,'… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Travers’s problem is how to come to terms with the violence that has pursued his life - not merely the violence of… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state of mind,… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the storm-filled celestial… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“(Logically–for what had a more gloomy prognosis than life?–every morning one should say to one's friends: 'I grieve for your irrevocable death,' as to… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“His unconscious was rapidly becoming a well-stocked pantheon of tutelary phobias and obsessions, homing onto his already over-burdened psyche like lost telepaths.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
