There was this Estella, a real drab, being given syph and gon and gleet by Augustus John, and Tommy has her living with him in that place of his in Earl’s Court and going to a doctor, nothing wrong with her actually but there might well have been, and he never touches her, you know.

A word to the not-so-wise about your girlfriend. Do what you need to with her, then broom her fast.

He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)

You would not like Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.