Quotes From "Highrise" By J.G. Ballard

First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage. J.G. Ballard

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed. J.G. Ballard

The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways J.G. Ballard

In effect, the apartment block was a small vertical city, its two thousand inhabitants boxed up into the sky.j.g. J.G. Ballard

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance. J.G. Ballard

Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator. J.G. Ballard

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs." One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right". J.G. Ballard

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot. J.G. Ballard

This was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence. J.G. Ballard

Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors. J.G. Ballard