Quippy

I usually flinch at the quippy philosophies espoused on car bumper stickers...

One of them told us in a quippy comment: “we are not architects”.

Dyer’s trademark wit and uniqueness, in fact, surround you before you’ve even turned to the first page: the first half of his title, “Jeff in Venice,” at once offers a quippy come-on and announces he’s going to subvert and update the classic novella by Thomas Mann (putting the self, or anti-self, in place of death)[…]