Literary Salon Lovers Pillows

"It seems unfair to talk about the book when Steve, Rhonda, and Sue aren't here - so let's talk about them!"

"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.'

The adoration of the gels.

'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.'

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

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

"Oh, mournful and terrible engine of horror and crime—of agony and of death, not asparagus again!"

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

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

"I can never get my sunglasses on my head the way my hairdresser does"

The intellectual.

Pampered and poodled.

Iris Murdoch

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

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

Thomas Hardy

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

The Coiffing - to Illustrate poem 'The Ballad of a Barber'

"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.

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Litterary Dogs.

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Lord Byron

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?