“To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Because we're not reasonable and rational creatures. Far from it. We resort to reason when it suits us. For most people life… — 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
“But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dismantled at… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“One needs a great deal of idle time to feel really sorry for oneself.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The slower a clock, the nearer it approximated to the infinitely gradual and majestic progression of cosmic time - in fact, by… — 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
“We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us” — 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
