“I am illiterate. Just not in English.”
“Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil." "A which?" "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.”
“I wrote on the door of my heart, ‘Please do not enter.’Love came smiling and said: ‘Sorry I am an illiterate.”
“But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.”
“I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!”
“A whore, we've established that, filthy, it goes without saying, but whatever else the hell I am, I AM NOT ENGLISH.”