89 Quotes by J.G. Ballard

"As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never intruded and even their role in conception was unknown. Here the chain of life was mother to daughter, daughter to mother. Fathers and sons belonged in the shadows with the dogs and livestock, like the retriever growling at Midwife Bell's unfamiliar car from the window of my neighbours' living room."

"They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed."

"The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible."

"The 90’s map the decades to come – full of invisible technologies that will ‘sub-contract’ many of the functions of the central nervous system."

"We have annexed the future into our present as merely one of those manifold alternatives open to us"

"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 of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed."

"the run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways"

"In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g."

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

"The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it."