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"You’re trying to take credit for one of mine."

"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."

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

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

The intellectual.

Iris Murdoch

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"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

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

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

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

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

Of Mice and Men.

Litterary Dogs.

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

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

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

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

Lord Byron

'Choose, Fenster