Alfred: My sexuality is like water.
GA: is that your clever way of saying that it was you who broke that vase that the Chinese government gave to us as a gift?
Alfred: the floor was slippery.
VA: Alfred, that vase was from the Han Dynasty.
Alfred: I thought it was from China?
GA: Alfred, that vase is older than you
Alfred: everything is older than me. Honestly, I’ve lost any and all respect for old things. If I had to respect every old thing, then I’d have nothing to complain about. Also, I fixed it!
VA: Gorilla gluing it doesn’t count as ‘fixing it’, Alfred.
Chinese Government: did you give the American representative the vase like we asked?
China: Do you really think I’m going to trust that clumsy child with a token from my own history?
China: No. I gave him a reproduction. It was a pretty superb reproduction, too.