“The book is your book. You have been responsible for every single thing on every page, every comma, every syllable is your work.”
Paul Auster
“DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.”
Dave Barry
“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death”
William Shakespeare
“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS! of DIRE! ImPORTance!”
William Shatner
“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
