Dreams 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... J. G. Ballard 34
Dreams The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more.... J. G. Ballard 35
Death People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of... J. G. Ballard 35
Soul I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or... J. G. Ballard 34
Future The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after. J. G. Ballard 41
Future 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... J. G. Ballard 33
Truth The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the... J. G. Ballard 35
