Sheila Ballantyne

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

— Sheila Ballantyne

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

— Sheila Ballantyne

There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing…

— Sheila Ballantyne

Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.

— Sheila Ballantyne

The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.

— Sheila Ballantyne

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

— Sheila Ballantyne

Life is like a great jazz riff. You sense the end the very moment you were wanting it to go on forever.

— Sheila Ballantyne

You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure…

— Sheila Ballantyne

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should…

— Sheila Ballantyne

“You can always trust information given to you by people who are crazy. They have access to truth not available through regular…

— Sheila Ballantyne

everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's…

— Sheila Ballantyne

Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you…

— Sheila Ballantyne

I can’t wait fifteen years to do my work: Because my ideas are coming now.

— Sheila Ballantyne

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

— Sheila Ballantyne

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

— Sheila Ballantyne

Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.

— Sheila Ballantyne

The freeway is the last frontier. It is unsurpassed as a training ground for the sharpening of survival skills.

— Sheila Ballantyne

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

— Sheila Ballantyne

in California death is one of the most successfully kept secrets there is. If you doubt this, try to find a cemetery.

— Sheila Ballantyne