The only truly alien planet is Earth. - J. G. Ballard

"Strangman shrugged theatrically. "It might," he repeated with great emphasis. "Let's admit that. It makes it more interesting — particularly for Kerans. 'Did I or did I not try to kill myself?' One of the few existential absolutes, far more significant than 'To be or not to be?', which merely underlines the uncertainty of the suicide, rather than the eternal ambivalence of his victim." He smiled down patronisingly at Kerans as the latter sat quietly in his chair, sipping at the drink Beatrice had brought him. "Kerans, I envy you the task of finding out — if you can.

The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.

At first Laing found something alienating about the concrete landscape of the project — an architecture designed for war, on the unconscious level if no other.