Extreme Metaphors Quotes

“I define inner space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind, meet and merge. Now, in the landscapes of the surrealist painters, for example, one sees the regions of inner space; and increasingly I believe that we will encounter in film and literature scenes which are neither solely realistic nor fantastic. In a sense, it will be a movement in the interzone between both spheres.”
― J.G. Ballard, Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008

“Before he’d even uttered a word, Don DeLillo once presented an interviewer with a card that warned: ‘I don’t want to talk about it’; Ballard, in his heyday, could talk for hours, plying his interrogators with Scotch to keep things on an even keel.”
― J.G. Ballard, Extreme Metaphors: Selected Interviews with J.G. Ballard, 1967-2008