J. G. Ballard World Quotations

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

I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .