Muse Cartoons

"What rhymes with 'failed marriage'?"

A sensitive, well-balanced thought attempts to enter the daydreaming room, but is rebuffed by emotionless thermal windows.

"Any intellectual property yet, honey?"

"I can't help thinking there's a book in this."

The Meeting of the Mothers of Toulouse-Lautrec and Whistler

"Young people today need heroes - that's why I hired a P.R. firm."

"I get my best ideas in airports, peeking at other people's laptops."

"Sue the bastards."

"Winter must be coming. The people in my novel are starting to wear mittens."

"Of course, by now she'd be around a hundred and eighty years old."

"M. Duchamp, 1912"

"Very few new ideas come into Arthur's head anymore. He's living on his fat."

"Start with a Spanish doubloon. Those are always good."

"Here's another one about Teddy bears."

"Go do something, honey. Then you can write in your journal."

Dickens' First Encounter with a Martini

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

"So much for listening to one's muse."

Write a Screenplay

"Write what you know. Write about male-pattern baldness."

"Try twenty-three left."

"Hey, I'm thirsty. I need a drink. A drink and a liverwurst sandwich. Hey, how about a sandwich and a beer down at Gallagher's, then we can go shoot some pool? Or maybe take in a movie. Hey, I'm talking to you."

"Do you have any advice for me? I'm writing a children's book."

"This is a selection from my novel about a writers' group that has one real writer and five wanna-be b*****s."

"He begged his wife and kids to join him in Tahiti, but he didn't mean a word of it, the bastard."