Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

A wrong mind-set is like bad soil that restricts a plant’s growth. Similarly, limiting beliefs about ‘what we deserve’ hinder our growth. They stop us from being abundant in every area of our life.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.