Storytelling Friend Gifts

'I wish you'd stop recounting boyhood stories with the phrase, 'Back when I was your height'.'

"Anachronism or not, it just ain't the fourth without the ribs and Willie Nelson."

"Nice epic battle between good and evil!"

"Siri, who’s the fairest of them all?"

"Dammit, Pooh - don't let the heffalumps win!"

'I've had the place gob-stopper-dashed.'

"What did Jesus order?"

Marcel Proust

"You'll have to excuse my date. He spontaneously combusts from time to time."

"I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to hurt sales of my 'tell-all' book."

'CHICK-FLICK' MALE LEAD CHARACTER ARC.

'This definitely calls for group therapy.'

Pixie Dust $2.00 A Handfull

"Tut's outdone himself this time."

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

Tiny Tim, who did not die, grows up to marry Little Nell, who did not die, either.

"He spends hours waiting for his muse to strike..."

'If little girls are made of sugar and spire and everything nice, where does genetics fit into the picture?'

England.

'You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me?'

"Good evening, Charles - windy out, is it?"

'Secretary Fish and General Grant Amused at the English Outcry over the Alabama Claims'

"I know it's only a thumbnail sketch, but I quite like it!"

To sleep, perchance to wake up as a different person.

Arabian Nights.

"It's true, Caesar. Rome is declining, but I expect it to pick up in the next quarter."

"Actually, I don't know anybody here. I was just passing the house when I heard all the fun."

'What really stung is when they wanted the Magna Carta notarized!'

Writer's Strike

Anais Nin.

"He leaves the Sendak lying around, but he's never actually read it."

British Prime Ministers.

The Wellington Statue.

An interview with Codlin and Short

'You're not Gramma! You're Wolf Blitzer!'