Sam Mooney

“Thurber was asked by a correspondent: "Why did you have a comma in the sentence, 'After dinner, the men went into the living-room'?" And his answer was probably one of the loveliest things ever said about punctuation. "This particular comma," Thurber explained, "was Ross's way of giving the men time to push back their chairs and stand up.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“there was enough love floating around to keep us human, but not enough to keep us warm.”
― Alan Sillitoe, A Start In Life

“Felicia was a dutiful child, and she loved her parents. It took a bit of doing, but she did it.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Fore!: The Best of Wodehouse on Golf