Bestseller Buff Gifts

'Like to read, huh? Me, too. I'm a big reader. I just finished a book by Brown. You know Dan Brown? Great writer...'

"In the first place, it isn't "maddening crowd.' It's 'madding crowd.' "

This is Lenny the leopard with the on-the-spot news.

Zoology Class. Test Today. What did you get for the question about Fuzzy Wuzzy?

'The iceman cometh too soon!'

'Alas, poor Yorick, I knew you well. But dude, you're creeping me out, so I gotta un-friend you!'

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

German Expressionist Breakfast

If nobody had invented graphics

John Bunyan

"The spoon, he ran away with the goddam spoon."

The writer: something who devotes a lifetime of solitude to the same of communication.

"Have you read any of Shakespeare's plays?"

Audio Books

Before the Internet

'Yorick? No, I don't think so, unless of course he was a Neanderthal!'

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

US v.s. Tech Giants

Video Henge: made from melting and molding 3,000,000 obsolete VCR tapes.

Emily Dickinson: Mime - "I think she's saying something about death."

Igor hesitated - "You give me that silly old brain, and i'll give you these magic beans!"

"And the letterbox version, how does that make you feel."

Rape of the Lock- The Dream

'It's a novel based on a movie adapted from a magazine article that was inspired by a video game.'

Humpty Dumpty goes bungee jumping.

'Have you no common scents?!'

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

Myths and legends...

"Eye of pie...a**e of rat...p**s of newt."

Stuff: You Don't Really Need But Still Don't Have.

Shakespeare. Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. "To be or not to be, that is the question". "We are such stuff …As dreams are made of …" "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would small as sweet." That Shakespeare guy had some neat sound bites.

Stephen Fry

Moby Dick

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

'Fyodor Dostoevsky sends weeks describing Alexy Karamazov's quest for a white whale, and then discards the entire chapter."