If You Can Smell Garlic, Everything Is

The Only Truly Alien Planet Is Earth.

Everywhere You Look - Britain, The States, Western Europe - People Are Sealing Themselves Into Crime-free Enclaves. That's A Mistake - A Certain Level Of Crime Is Part Of The Necessary Roughage Of Life. Total Security Is A Disease Of Deprivation.

The Car As We Know It Is On The Way Out.

If I Don't Write, I Begin To Feel Unsettled And Uneasy, As I Gather People Do Who Are Not Allowed To Dream.

By The Eighteenth Book, One Has A Sense Of Having Bricked Oneself Into A Niche, A Roosting Place For Other People's Pigeons. I Wouldn't Recommend It.