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

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.

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.

Eyebrows are what give the eyes focus

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

To become the enemy, see yourself as the enemy of the enemy

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

If in doubt, just walk until your day becomes interesting.

Flattery works like a drug.