Cal Barton

“As I fell asleep, I knew I would dream, and I dreamed first that I knew why I dreamed, why humans dream. We dream, quite simply, so we know we're not dead.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“Very tall with red hair and freckles. Clear marks of a hooligan.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“I lay awake for the balance of the night letting my dream shatter into indecipherable pieces the way dreams do.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone

“She laughed and asked, "What if Shakespeare was just hitting keys?"

"Shakespeare didn't have a typewriter," I said.

"What if he was just making marks on paper? And that's how he came up with Macbeth?"

"I doubt it. Maybe Measure for Measure. I could see that with Measure for Measure. Not Macbeth.”
― Percival Everett, Telephone