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."

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.

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.

Joy is the serious business of heaven. Our merriment must be between people who take each other seriously.

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes.

Clearly, Im drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

I'm not shaving for a month so you all can see my mustache... I'm pumped!

the best committee's a committee of one!

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.