How to Be

Art:
I've moved back in. For a while. Back home.

Mother:
Well, it was just a matter of time. Look, I really got to go. Please try to not make a mess of things.

Jeremy:
You know, they do anything to be in a position at your age.

Art:
I know. That's why I am volunteering. Giving my time, to help the community.

Ronny:
I have a balance of self already.

Nikki:
Tell me really. Do you actually like your self?

Ronny:
Yeah.

Nikki:
Really?

Ronny:
No.

Mother:
Why are you smiling?

Art:
I got a surprise for you and dad.

Mother:
Don't say that dear.

Art:
Mum, Dad, This is Dr. Ellington. He's going to make me be more normal. He's very, very famous. Very, very successful.

Art:
I want my personal therapist here during any formal discussion.

Jeremy:
You have a personal therapist?

Ronny:
Therapy was invented in the sixties, do you know what invented means? It means it doesn't exist.

Art:
Shut up in yo' face.

Jessica:
When we first met you seemed so elusive and brooding and intense, an enigmatic poet. But what I took to be deep and mysterious has just turned out to be really sad and unhappy.