J. G. Ballard, Date/Origin Unknown

I don't take anything at its face value—the angle between 2 walls, the perspectives that a given street or a given corridor offer to me. I regard all these as data which will play their role in whatever hypothesis I'm proposing to offer, to explain the significance of mysterious and apparently unrelated objects, this huge network of ciphers, and encoded instructions—perhaps—that surround us in reality.