Quotes by Ballard, J. G.

I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin >>

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed >>

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandisi >>

Quotations about Twentieth Century

In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we dre >>

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that >>

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 19 >>

The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across the communications landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. Thermonuclear weapons systems and soft drink commercials coexist in an overlit realm ruled by advertising and pseudo-events, science and pornography. Over our lives preside the great twin leitmotifs of the 20th century -- sex and paranoia.

Ballard, J. G.