Genius Pillows

"If you were truly blessed by genius, it wouldn't end there, believe you me!"

"Looks like we grafted a few too many human genes into the kohlrabi."

William Shakespeare sitting at a desk

"Once I connect with my server over there, I can turn my lamp on and off."

'I think your father's had one of his big ideas...'

The Proust of Twitter

'If I told you what I wished for, you'd probably slap me.'

'The school. My counselor told me to make the most of it...'

"For just one monkey in front of one typewriter you've come up with some amazing stuff."

"The robots have become self-aware and self-loathing. Now all they do is write novels."

"Quick! The ideas are hatching!"

'What have you got for the man who knows everything?'

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

'Right so lets be clear, when you said my book was a turgid reworking of a sad collection of hackneyed ideas you actually meant that it was a groundbreaking work of originality and genius...'

Bioengineering Lab, I put a little Dachshund DNA into a rabbit. Hare extensions!

'Tommy's book reports are like no other.'

You don't have to explain the software to me. I wrote it.

It was then that Cervantes was inspired.

YOU HAVE A VERY LARGE GENIUS GRANT LINE.

'DNA...nature's bar code.'

"No, I don't think I have a book in me. I think I have a chicken in me."

Today at school...we did algorithms for Quantum computation.

'ADN'

"Say, do you have time between all that DNA research to invent a non-smelly sock."

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Money Tree

"No wonder you can't write, you're not plugged in!"

"I've devised a new paternity test, or as I call it, a pop quiz."

"I feel bad about Nora Ephron's neck."

'This changes everything -- I found a loophole in the genetic code!'

'Oh man, he just nailed that triple entendre... that all but guarantees him a medal.'

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

Writer's Block Party

"We could try reversing the drug's side effects with gene therapy, but we don't want to get into trouble with the SPCA."

T. S. Eliot