Quotes by : J.G. Ballard

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious....

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

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

Kandinski looked up. 'Do you read science fiction?' he asked matter-of-factly.'Not as a rule,' Ward admitted.....

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs."One....

Have you noticed how vocabularies fluctuate in order to cope with our need to justify ourselves?

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.....

No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: …there’s a vast new intimacy and....

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than....