Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind - mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think the enemy of creativity in the world today is that so much thinking is done for you. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
