Quotes from J.G. Ballard

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

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

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

If we really feared the crash, most of us would be unable to look at a car, let lone drive one.