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.

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.

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.

...you look at me like an emergency

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

No one teaches you how to be a famous person no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

I like marriage. I feel very secure. It helps when you are in love with the person you are married to.

One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change.

Words There is no good father, that's the rule. Don't lay the blame on men but on the bond of paternity, which is rotten. To beget children, nothing better; to have them, what iniquity!

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

Victory is about recognizing all the work that went into achieving your dream.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.