A city like London doesn't really offer me anything--I'm not interested in it. It's much too old. Whereas the suburbs are, comparatively speaking, new. In a way they're more dangerous places--you're not going to get mugged walking down the street, but somebody might steal your soul. I mean that literally--your will to live. Your imagination might be taken from you by some passing merchandising corporation, or what have you.
J.G. Ballard, from a 1984 interview collected in RE/Search no. 8/9















