Soon after his sale to Spielberg we went out to eat together. “Have you noticed, Mike, how rude customers in restaurants have become?” he asked. “I’m not sure it’s that, Jimmy,” I said. “I think we can now afford to eat in the rude people’s restaurants.”

Michael Moorcock on JG Ballard.

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