Joke(s) involving literature or authors

Descartes says, “I think not.”

“Jane Austen’s books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.”

  • Samuel Clemens

There’s a planet with enormous gem mines on the other side of a space cloud. However, the bugs that live in the cloud attached themselves to space ships and eat the exterior, killing the occupants. Several ships have tried to get to the planet, with disasterous results.

Finally, the Millinieum Falcon gets to the planet and returns with tons of precious gems. Someone asks Han Solo “How did you get through the cloud with the bugs intact?”

Solo replies “I gassed them off.”

For those who don’t get it:

A pun on the name of author Issac “Ike” Asimov