Ionesco

wrote plays. I've been reading a few of them. They're quite interesting.

I'd say you need to see these quotes in context in order for them to make sense, but that would be lying.

Mr. Martin: I traveled second class, madam. There is no second class in England, but I always travel second class.

Mrs. Smith: There, it's nine o'clock. We've drunk the soup, and eaten the fish and chips, and the English salad. The children have drunk English water. We've eaten well this evening. That's because we live in the suburbs of London and our name is Smith.
Mr. Smith: [continues to read, clicks his tongue]

The Fire
The polypoids were burning in the wood
A stone caught fire
The castle caught fire
The forest caught fire
The men caught fire
The women caught fire
The birds caught fire
The fish caught fire
The water caught fire
The sky caught fire
The ashes caught fire
The smoke caught fire
The fire caught fire
Everything caught fire
Caught fire, caught fire.

(Those were from The Bald Soprano)

Pupil: It's easy. Not being able to rely on my reasoning, I've memorized all the products of all possible multiplications.

(cough. Michael.)

Professor: ...In Spanish: the roses of my grandmother are as yellow as my grandfather who was Asiatic; in Latin: the roses of my grandmother are as yellow as my grandfather who was Asiatic. Do you detect the differences? Translate this into...Romanian.

Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime...

(From The Lesson)

Mother Jack: Gaston, come here! Your son, your son adores hashed brown potatoes!
...
Father Jack [aside]: Can it be that all is not lost? That would be too wonderful, but not a moment too soon.

(From Jack, or the Submission)

See, Michael, your "quotes" are nothing new. People have been doing things like that since the 50s.

Next up, Waiting for Godot.