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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."

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

"I'm trying to forget a pussycat."

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."

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

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

Writer

Dr. Darrin found her peer review process unnerving.

'The hippiest dryads were often farouche.'

Answers to last week's brain-teasers

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

Shakespeare considers alternatives to iambic pentameter

"Is there a God?"

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

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

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

Bizarre sights.

The Big Four debate banking ethics

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

"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!"

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