The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
J. G. BallardIt seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.
J. G. BallardYes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
J. G. BallardI feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds.
J. G. Ballard