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

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

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

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.

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

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

Talent without tact is only half talent.

He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

I'm so exhausted and yet I feel like I'll never sleep again.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?” Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.

Change can only be in the limited.