I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm m… - J. G. Ballard

Unhappy parents teach you a lesson that lasts a lifetime.

A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together.

The more arid and affectless life became in the high-rise, the greater the possibilities it offered. By its very efficiency, the high-rise took over the task of maintaining the social structure that supported them all. For the first time, it removed the need to suppress every kind of anti-social behavior and left them free to explore any deviant or wayward impulses. It was precisely in these areas where the most important and interesting aspects of their lives would take place. Secure within the shell of the high-rise, like passengers on board an automatically-piloted airliner, they were free to behave in any way they wished, explore the darkest corners they could find. In many ways, the high-rise was a model of all that technology had done to make possible the expression of a truly free psychopathology.