writer

Two friends, on endings.

Charles: I live a double life at best. When, where, and how does it all end? Do I walk into work one day and they’ll all have realised I’m not the person they always thought me to be?

Cecily: You already know your end. It’s preordained. Every moment of your life you have respired as Don Draper, and now you’re questioning whether your writers are going to spontaneously change your course? Hold their hands and walk into that ocean my friend. Buy the world a Coke.

Charles: I want a new story.

Cecily: So did Don. Escape is futile.

Two friends, on being sober.

Arnaud: You are sober?

Cecily: Yes.

Arnaud: And the world is still colourful?

Cecily: Very much so.

Arnaud: Was it an accident, your sobriety?

Two friends, on an orchestra.

Cecily: Yves went to inform his music teacher that he’s staying in Paris so he can be with me forever, instead of joining the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Charles: You have a responsibility to the global art world. Just drug him and put him on the Eurostar.

Elijah, on sadness.

Elijah: Sometimes sadness makes me very unhappy.

Two friends, on bed.

Vinnie: I love being in bed with my gym socks on, like a fourteen year-old American teenager.

Cecily: I love being in bed naked with volumes of my own poetry, like an 18th Century cortigiana onesta.

Two friends, on weakness.

Charles: What is Charles’ greatest weakness?

Cecily: His wholehearted enjoyment of his own flaws. Thus, he will always find growth difficult, if not impossible.

Charles: I hate your assessment. Be dishonest next time.

Delilah, on overly encoded language.

Delilah: According to my tutors, I’m a master of hermeneutically self-referential, overly encoded language.

Two friends, on Moleskine.

Charles: I bought my 2016 Moleskine today. Not sure if you use one.

Cecily: Is that a question you ask a creative polymath who has already desperately sold her soul to fine leather and great marketing many, many times before? Of course I do.

Two friends, on sausage rolls.

Charles: I’m hilarious. For example: How do you make a sausage roll? Toss it down a hill.

Cecily: There’d better be pastry at the bottom of that fucking hill.

Two friends, on fans.

Cecily: You have an increasing fanbase. People enjoy Charles’ romantic cynicism.

Charles: I’m blushing… If that was the sort of thing I’d do…which as you know, I don’t.