John Strausbaugh, New York Times, December 1, 2004
A compendium of provocative quips and comments ... often they compress the modern world with magnificant concision.

Gary Singh, Metro Silicon Valley, November 24, 2004
This book provides a keen insight into the mind of a 20th-century counterculture hero [J.G. Ballard].

Lauren Eggert-Crowe, Galatea's Pants #15, Nov 29, 2004
A fabulous collection of quotes organized beautifully, paired with snazzy and often bizarre photographs.

Book Description
Ballard's books have remained fresh decades after they were first published, and the thoughts collected in J.G. Ballard: Quotes have worn equally as well. Small enough to fit in a pocket, this book brings together J. G. Ballard's trenchant thoughts on music, film, celebrity, the rise of corporate media, the death of reality, and much more. Grouped by topics such as "Sex: Relationships, Sex x Technology = the Future, Pornography" and "Surrealism, Imagination," these quotes are both concise and clear, and provide a strong beacon for readers who are used to a baffling daily assault of advertisements, phone calls, and e-mails. They are also an excellent resource to help readers better understand Ballard's novels, which stand among the most visionary, provacative literature of the 20th century. A Ballardian glossary, the essay "Guide to Virtual Death," and a bibliography round out this excellent resource.

About the Author
J.G. Ballard was born in Shanghai in 1930 of English parents and interned as a youth during the Japanese occupation. He has published nearly 40 novels and short-story compilations, including Empire of the Sun, later made into a motion picture by Steven Spielberg; and the controversial Crash, which was the basis for David Cronenberg's film of the same name. V. Vale is a San Francisco based counter culture icon, whose Search & Destroy helped to catalyze and record for history the San Francisco punk scene of the late 1970s. His next publication series, RE/Search was the catalyst of the tattoo/piercing underground, the exotica music craze, and a renewed interest in B-movies, to name a few of the alternative cultures to which he has contributed his "text books."