“Cholesterol to go with alcohol; all the bad things in English-speaking life end in -ol.”
“This was how a manang self-destructed, probably. Not with drugs or alcohol, but cholesterol.”
“Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don’t speak English?”
“Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?”
“Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.”
“The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.”