Novella Lover Prints

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

"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

"Once upon a time, there was a princess who wasn't about to take anyone's sh*t."

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

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

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

Distractions Of The Great

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

Kid to mom: 'Tell me again about the time you helped fortress a city, subdue hostile fire and got home and baked us all raspberry strudels.'

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

Iris Murdoch

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

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

The intellectual.

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

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"That dream catcher may be working a little too well."

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

"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.

Toys were me: lessons learned never growing up

Lord Byron