Quotes by : J. G. Ballard

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl....

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything....

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung....

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange....

People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain,....

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What....

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world....

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its....