I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention—it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature. Any word can be spelled just as well a different way.

'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character (ed. Penguin UK, 2007) - ISBN: 9780141937588