Timeless Literature Lover Gifts

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

'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."

"Would you like me to annotate that for you?"

The Ray Bradbury classic, 'The Car Alarm.'

"You're going to hate yourself."

The DaVinci Code

"So, what brings you in today, Mr. Brooks? High anxiety again?"

Thomas Mann.

Tut and Carmen.

Mr. Metamorphosis: "At least this better than waking up as a cockroach."

'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.'

Captain Ahab searched for a vaccine.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

Papageno from The Magic Flute

"For the last time stupid, you're tin man, you are not by any leap of the imagination, anything like Iron Man!"

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"Well, what did you expect? They were both missing vital organs."

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

Kid in time-out writes 'it was the best of time out...'

"Not to be a motion picture - will remain just a book'

Television Readers.

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"Now Playing: One of those Jane Austen movies."

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

Miss, how do you spell "acceptable"? I've Googled every "e" and can't find it.

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