Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.
J. G. BallardI take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.
J. G. BallardI thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!
J. G. BallardAcross the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
J. G. BallardA widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
J. G. BallardDeserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free of time. Anything erected there, a city, a pyramid, a motel, stands outside time. It's no coincidence that religious leaders emerge from the desert. Modern shopping malls have much the same function. A future Rimbaud, Van Gogh or Adolf Hitler will emerge from their timeless wastes.
J. G. Ballard