American Literature Pillows

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"He's about your size. Peg-leg. Seen him?"

"Don't miss a single word, Edgar. I am not going to dictate this poem again: once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."

"I've been invited to address a conference of professors of twentieth-century American literature who are sleeping with their students."

Eugene O'Neill.

Mark Twain

J.D.Salinger epitaph.

"1984 by George Orwell. Project 2025. Presidential transition project."

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

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

Blue Stockings - Woman revealing herself as author

"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.

"Go ahead and eat her, she's a pain in the a**."

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Agamemnon and Clytemnestra have decided to separate amicably."

Library sections; Fiction, non-fiction and do-it-yourself.

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

Thought for today: "All the world's a stage." - Shakespeare. And boy, are there a lot of drama critics.

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"You're going to hate yourself."

'If you were disturbed by any issues raised, please call your mum.'

"Meet The Author"

"I was going to chuck it all and go to Paris but I didn't have enough frequent-flier miles."

First Novels.

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Meet the author"

"Do me next."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"Meet the embellisher 3-5 pm"

The Bookworm

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."