The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

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.

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.

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.

I'm keeping the pixie. I hope I inspire people... it's really cool to have short hair.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

A light turned on in a dark room is like receiving a message from God quickly, completely, and all at once.

Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

I'm very happy to have moved to West Ham, because I can play for a better team than Sheffield Wednesday.