T-Rex: It is a truth universally acknowledged that "Call me Ishmael", as a novel opening, is like a television tuned to a dead channel.

T-Rex: That is to say: it's been done, yo!

T-Rex: Start your novel with "Call me [WHATEVER NAME YOU WANT HERE]" and people are gonna say, "Oh, like Moby Dick. It's like that other book I've heard about." And so the whole opening structure is ruined forever! You can still USE it, sure, but unless you somehow acknowledge Mobes D or play with it or whatever, people are just going to assume you ripped off Melville.

Utahraptor: There's lots of things like this!
T-Rex: Oh, I know!

Utahraptor: For example, I can't consider to being or not to being without people thinking "Oh hey, like from Hamlet".
T-Rex: Right?! The longer our civilization lasts, the more phrases get claimed by famous books, and the fewer words there are left for the rest of us. There can be only one answer:

T-Rex: DESTROY CIVILIZATION??
Off panel: Stop looking for low-hanging fruit, stand on the shoulders of giants, and express ever greater and more nuanced sentiment??
T-Rex: Uh, DESTROY CIVILIZATION??