Lyric Lovers Gifts

"'I'm a good dog, Mama, I'll bring you your daily news. I'm a good dog, Mama, I don't chew my master's shoes. But there's one thing life has learnt me - Even good dogs get the blues.' Blow some sweet harp for me, Lucky."

"I feel that what would really give your next album a major boost would be some kind of well-publicized personal problem."

'I changed my status from LLC to LL Cool C.'

"I'm stuck for the 'June-moon' rhyme in Serbo-Croatian."

Carly Simon - clowns in my coffee.

Watchdog for Eminem Fans

"How come they remember every word of any pop song but not a single line of poetry?"

'My resume,...in rap form!'

Senta jumps into the sea

"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

"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

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

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

"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.'

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

'I don't know much about history, don't know much biology ... but we'll be OK if there's a round on song lyrics.'

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

Of Mice and Men.