meandermind

“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.”
― J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition

“I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.”
― J.G. Ballard, Crash

“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism