[T]he flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar… – Constance Hale, Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, 1999

Shatner commas: Oddly placed commas that don’t seem to serve any actual purpose in punctuation, but make it look like you should take odd pauses, as William Shatner does when delivering lines. – Author unknown

The rules of punctuation seem arbitrary. How can they not, when an apostrophe looks like nothing in this world so much as a comma that can’t keep its feet on the ground? Or when, by simply placing next to that wafting comma its twin, one creates (of all things) a quotation mark? – Richard Lederer and John Shore, Comma Sense: A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That’s basic spelling that every woman ought to know. – Mistinguett, quoted in Theatre Arts, Volume39, Issue12, 1955