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

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.

Commas, like nuns, often travel in pairs.

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.

The only thing you have 100% control over is you.

My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

They that are booted are not alwaies ready.

The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.