J.G. Ballard

“Beyond the silver span of the motor bridge lay basins of cracked mud the size of ballrooms - models of a state…

— J.G. Ballard

“First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state…

— J.G. Ballard

“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

“Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the…

— J.G. Ballard

“Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher…

— J.G. Ballard

“The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.”

— J.G. Ballard

“Remember, the police are neutral - they hate everybody.”

— J.G. Ballard

“Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the…

— J.G. Ballard

“I am looking into a silent world.”

— J.G. Ballard

“(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

“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

“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

“The long triangular grooves on the car had been formed within the death of an unknown creature, its vanished identity abstracted in…

— J.G. Ballard

“Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place…

— J.G. Ballard

“One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is alright.”

— J.G. Ballard

“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

“I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief.”

— J.G. Ballard

“The ambiguous role of the car crash needs no elaboration—apart from our own deaths, the car crash is probably the most dramatic…

— J.G. Ballard

“Dr. Ransome marked the exercises in the algebra textbook and gave him two strips of rice-paper bandage on which to solve the…

— J.G. Ballard

“The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales executives tucked into their platters…

— J.G. Ballard

“When he had first met her, Royal had taken for granted her absolute self-confidence, but in fact the reverse was true -…

— J.G. Ballard

“The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road.”

— J.G. Ballard

“What's been happening?" "Nothing... It's already happened”

— J.G. Ballard

“Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might ," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting—particularly for Kerans. '…

— J.G. Ballard

“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