Budding Doctor Gifts

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

Mom, you gotta raise my allowance. I can't afford my malpractice insurance!

I should be a writer when I grow up...

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

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

'Can you tell me what I've written? I can't read!'

" 'How I Spent My Summer Vacation,' a treatment by Todd Mozelle, Grade Three."

'I have a feeling one day when he grows up he'll be an artist of some kind.'

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'We're pushing our do-it-yourself kit, today, sir - a ream of paper and a half-dozen pencils.'

On Aug. 3, 1992, the Moon rose over the horizon wearing heavy eye-liner and mohawk. Fortunately it was just a phase.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

"Dad, this is Wendy, she's going to re-negotiate my allowance!"

"Viola player coming through!"

"Isn't it obvious? I'm writing the great American graphic novel."

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

"I've finally finished my lockdown novel."

'Talk about stuck-up! -- he has Masterpiece Theatre action figures!'

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

'I can't find the words to express my anger with you.' - 'She needs a dictionary.'

'Birthdays are like life...the more you have, the more illuminated you become.'

"I just got a huge advance for my first novel. It's about a writer who gets a huge advance for his first novel."

"Jose Rivera, who wrote the screenplay for 'The Motorcycle Diaries,' is the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar. He's known for incorporating his life experiences into his award-winning writing."

"For you young scientists who hope to do public service work someday, the following six experiments, showing the basic ideas behind chemical warfare...."

A child busking

'Who else have I written for? Ridge Park Avenue, 7th Street, Elm Road, Thornwood Drive...'

"My report on summer vacation. . . Book and movie rights are available for $1000 each."

"No, he's not grounded anymore. He used his allowance and lawyered up."

Woman in need of an extractor fan.

'I didn't know you were a cook. I just heard Daddy say you'd make good sausages.'

'I must be getting good, because my Dad told me to go play for the neighbours!'

Hope you're still writing that novel!