Lyricism Lover Pillows

"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."

"Meet The Author"

'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.'

"Now I really hate poetry."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Once upon a midnight dreary / while I pondered weak and weary."

One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poetry

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

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

John Bunyan

Distractions Of The Great

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

"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

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

"Oh, this old thing?"

The intellectual.

Dating an English Major

Iris Murdoch

Senta jumps into the sea

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

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

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

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

'As I walk through the halls, I see teachers teaching and students learning and I say to myself, 'what wonderful school, what a wonderful world.''

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