Bobby

“The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams—mad but interesting.”
― Robert Graves, I, Claudius

“A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged.”
― C.S. Lewis, Perelandra

“He gives her his Art History lecture.

‘Then you get Mo-net and Ma-net, that’s a little tricky, Mo-net was the one did all the water lilies and shit, his colors were blues and greens, Ma-net was the one did Bareass on the Grass and shit, his colors were browns and greens. Then you get Bonnard, he did all the interiors and shit, amazing light, and then you get Van Guk, he’s the one with the ear and shit, and Say-zanne, he’s the one with the apples and shit, you get Kandinsky, a bad mother, all them pick-up-sticks pictures, you get my man Mondrian, he’s the one with the rectangles and shit, his colors were red yellow and blue, you get Moholy-Nagy, he did all the plastic thingummies and shit, you get Mar-cel Du-champ, he’s the devil in human form….’

She’s asleep.”
― Donald Barthelme

“Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.”
― Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot