I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you.... →
Alan Ball
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of... →
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
Edward Ball
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though... →
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the... →
J. G. Ballard
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're... →
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as... →
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being... →
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies... →
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums... →