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"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."

The Forbidden Joyce Kilmer

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

"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."

Temporary and Permanent Writer's Block

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

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

Thinking and thinking backwards.

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

'As I see it, it's a toss-up between a Belgian data processing machine and an American electronic computer.'

Writer

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

Dr. Darrin found her peer review process unnerving.

"Is there a God?"

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

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

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

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

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

'That's from the last year the data was available.'

"I'm basically happy but I'd like a most cost-effective personality."

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

Bizarre sights.

"The problem is: reasonable men may differ on what the hell reason is!"

James Russell Lowell

Left and Right: Please be consistent.

'The mind-body problem is best expressed in the formulation...OOf!'

"Hang on - I've forgotten the question!"

'The shrink said my holiday was hereditary - my family.'

"You know what your problem is? You think too much."