Literary Lifter Pillows

"No, trashy paperbacks is the next but one..."

Library: The Weight lifting Section.

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

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

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

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

'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."

Distractions Of The Great

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

'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."

Iris Murdoch

The intellectual.

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

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

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

Of Mice and Men.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

Litterary Dogs.

Lord Byron

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

'Greetings and welcome to my new play called 'King Lear.' It's about delegation, succession, and decentralization.'

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"I think I see your deadline approaching."

"Mommy, look! Tablets from olden days!"

"Remorse sits in my stomach like a piece of stale bread. How does that sound?"

Emily Dickinson at a Cocktail Party: "I;m Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too?"