“I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!”
Henry Miller
“Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.”
Lewis Thomas
“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.”
Oscar Wilde
“We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.”
Clifton Fadiman
“Life is a series of commas, not periods.”
Matthew McConaughey
“All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.”
Thomas Mitchell
“And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know.”
Frank Bruno
