Let me note that Kilgore Trout and I have never used…

“In the United States, periods and commas go inside the quotation mark. In Britain, they go outside the quotation mark. Squiggly said, “No.” (United…

— Mignon Fogarty

You know, you'd hide behind a Public Enemy or Ice Cube, or Bruce Springsteen, or U2, because they spoke for you. But now everybody's…

— Ice T

Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think…

— Sufjan Stevens

One of the things I like about my job is that it draws on the entire person: not just your knowledge of grammar and…

— Mary Norris

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

— Lynne Truss

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

“April 6—Today, I learned, the comma, this is, a, comma (,) a period, with, a tail, Miss Kinnian, says its, importent, because, it makes…

— Daniel Keyes

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

— Alan Clark

“I'm a big believer in random capitalization. The rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in the middle. (32)”

— John Green

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling…

— James Fenton

The Biblical text does not have punctuation marks like periods and question marks. Where we end sentences is a matter of interpretation.

— Elie Wiesel

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

— Isaac Marion

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

— Simon Cowell

“You didn’t put a semicolon there — God did.”

— Eleanor Brownn

Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling…

— Marjorie Kellogg