“What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.”
― Maskerade
― Maskerade
“Those spineless types who talk about abolishing the apostrophe are missing the point.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“I gave her a love letter and she returned it back to me by correcting spelling and punctuation.”
― A moment with God ; Poetry
― A moment with God ; Poetry
“We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and their); there's sounds like theirs; and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.”
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
― Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“The almost-always-ghastly exclamation point has been lately compared to canned laughter.”
― One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
― One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation
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