Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.

Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

The English language is full of words that are just waiting to be misspelled, and the world is full of sticklers, ready to pounce.

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

Everybody is a writer. Everybody uses e-mail and has Facebook pages and tweets.

The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."

There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

On the printed page, it's best to have everything - you know, to still mind your P's and Q's, dot your I's and cross your T's, yes.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

We are blessed and sustained by what is not said

Even while you are in doubt, there will be an answer you will arrive to. Even while you are in pain, your happiness will be waiting.

Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

That's one of my struggles as a hip-hop artist. If I feel like doing a super conscious song where I don't even rap.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.