Paperback Ponderer Pillows

"It makes me happy that you took time to read the newspaper today."

'What I don't understand is how all three of us managed to get the figures wrong!'

"Give a sh*t" "Don't give a sh*t"

"According to mom the answers are all in this book!" "Too bad there's no pictures at which to look!"

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

"I'm in a catch-23 situation."

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

"Darling, I think we need to talk about where this relationship is going..." Male evolution.

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

"William Blake said you can see the whole world in a grain of sand, but he doesn't always make a lot of sense."

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

Three work boxes: 'IN...LIMBO...OUT': 'I think I've found your bottleneck.'

'Okay, let the minutes show we're not absconding with the money until the economy improves...'

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

Thinking and thinking backwards.

A poem: With daylight's shift, winter draws near...

How do you fell about buying your own health insurance?

Boxes marked 'In', 'Out' and 'How did this end up on my desk?'

Writer

"What's with kids nowadays? Walking upright's not good enough for you?"

"Sure, but what have you invented lately?"

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

"We're taking separate vacations this year."

"I like office work, it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours!"

Doo inc..can and no can.

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

'It's a real conundrum. Not sure if I should open it, or beat it.'

"Is there a God?"

Desk bins: Pretend it's not here, Hope it goes away, Delegate it.

"In the room the women come and go. Talking of Michelangelo."

"Well, for starters, Matt has been showing definite improvement in risk-taking."