Miriam - I'll give you any flowers you want!' Rhapsodizing over the thousand scents of her body, I exclaimed: 'I'll grow orchids from your hands, roses from your breasts. You can have magnolias in your hair...!'' And in my heart?'' In your womb I'll set a fly-trap!

— J.G. Ballard

No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: …there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet." JG Ballard, 2004

— J.G. Ballard

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

— J.G. Ballard

...reason rationalizes reality for him (Dr. Nathan) as it does for the rest of us, in the Freudian sense of providing a more palatable or convenient explanation, and there are so many subjects about which we should not be reasonable.

— J.G. Ballard

Recently she had become intrigued by the admiring glances of other women. The admiration of her own sex existed on a higher and more intense plane than anything men could offer, like the romantic rivalries of sisters. Together, women formed a conspiracy of glances entirely exchanged behind the backs of their menfolk.

— J.G. Ballard

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.

— J.G. Ballard

Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.

— J.G. Ballard

Sex is now a conceptual act, it's probably only in terms of the perversions that we can make contact with each other at all.

— J.G. Ballard

Sex × Technology = the Future.

— J.G. Ballard

She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.

— J.G. Ballard