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Hugo Wolf

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Distractions Of The Great

Archimedes statue with a lever

"If you could be any Bob Dylan you wanted to, which Bob Dylan would you be?"

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

"Off my back and out of the sack. Let's unpack and have a snack!"

The intellectual.

"She'll have a semi-wizened, double ristretto with a dot of quail's milk - and please recite a poem while you make it."

Iris Murdoch

'Never mind singing it in rap... a simple 'I do' will suffice.'

Senta jumps into the sea

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Thomas Hardy

'The next piece contains sex, violence, and Homeric epithets.'

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Rockabye Baby- $10/hour.

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

"And if that diamond ring don’t shine, Poppa will probably take it back to 47th Street and get something for your mother."

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

'Come on, come on, let's work together!'

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

Of Mice and Men.

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!