Bookish Sage Gifts

Spiritualism: Meet the Authors.

"Behold the secret to happiness."

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

"You seem troubled, Pastor. Is anything worrying you...I mean aside from the sins of the world, the vanity of humankind, man's inhumanity to man..."

"Remember, if I'm ever on life support unplug me... then plug me back in. See if that works."

"Today we studied Matthew, the first in a four-part series."

'I used to spring forward. Now all I can do is fall back.'

"Any distinguishing 'PARSONAL' characteristics?"

Don't you see, Kreutzer? That's why we have all this literature. So you won't duplicate an experiment that's already been done, and there's no reason at all why you should be duplicating Smedly's experiments. After all, he shares a lab with you.

'Oh, yeah? -- Well, my true inner self can whip your true inner self!'

The older I get, the more introspective I get, or is that retrospective?'

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Voltaire

"Pastor, may we share a message with you about humility?"

'Do you mean 'who cares what the meaning of life is,' or that 'who cares' IS the meaning of life?'

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Bishop with a crozier case.

"I wish you people would just read the blog."

'How am I supposed to meditate with your nose whistling?'

"Time heals all wounds. It also kills every living thing."

John Galsworthy

'They say ninety is the new eighty.'

Scene from an early draft of Moby Dick

Couldn't you have used a smaller font?

Barry Cryer.

"Don't worry, it's nothing."

'All that we learn from history is that we don't learn from history...'

"I've picked up too many nasty Hobbits."

'These people have terrible attention spans - I'll just bring them ten commandments at a time.'

"O.K., let's see what all the fuss is about."

William Blake.

'Meaning of life, eh? -- Who wants to know?'

'Where do you see yourself not getting tenure in seven years?'