Non Sequitur Lover Gifts

'My policy is to stay in close contact with my employees . . . figuratively speaking.'

"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.'

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

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

"Nice epic battle between good and evil!"

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

The intellectual.

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

Iris Murdoch

The New Fundamentals of Art: 'We'll begin with the most basic figure, the trademark attorney...'

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

"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.

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?

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

"What did Jesus order?"

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