Fireside Philosopher Gifts

Meekness of Mr Pecksniff and his Charming Daughter

'Think how all that chatting is affecting global warming.'

"You don't whisper anymore."

He can identify a fly taken by a trout at fifty yards range.

Courage. Love.

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

Of pitting his own wits against their natural cunning

"Well, he looks alive as of 10 minutes ago, but the stream is frozen."

"So that's where you were last night."

'Heidegger-Hi!'

"Let me take you back to a dark time when all you could do with a phone was make phone calls."

Continental Drift.

Chicken: the one-man show

Jay McInerney

"At first I was homesick....now I'll probably be campsick for awhile!"

"I don't think there's enough vodka for another week in Canada."

...Five ways for the cities-towns to raise money...

Bear bends hunter's guns.

"I can see the green shoots of recovery. The fag butts are getting longer."

Book Burning is Always Wrong?

"I'll get that. First go get me a glass of warm water."

That's not quite what I meant by a 'balanced diet'..

"He says 'fire no rocket science' - whatever that means."

'Sure, this is great, but don't you think we should be exploring alternative energy sources?'

"I dreamed my parents were still alive."

"Ig a skyscraper collapses in the cit and I don't hear it...will we care?"

Somewhere in France: Dr. Hallowell experiments with existentialism

Business Networking Session: 'Sorry I'm late - I'll just log on...'

MAN OF THE YEAR, 'You must come here a lot.'

"They want to turn the clocks back?"

How does she get her grass so green?

'I hope i did leave the faucet running so the water will put out the fire from the stove I left on.'

Anyone who believes 'where there's smoke, there's fire' never tried to start a fire in a fireplace.