[A] man must be a d—d fool, who can’t spell a word more than one way. – Author unknown, 1855, anecdote from Jamestown Journal (Thanks, Garson O’To

There is no element in which language resembles music more than in the punctuation marks…. Exclamation points are like silent cymbal clashes, question marks like musical upbeats, colons dominant seventh chords… – Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969), “Punctuation Marks,” Notes to Literature, V

There’s the Oxford comma, but I like the Shatner comma. It’s when you pepper them in, so, you know where, to add, dramatic pauses. – Nicole Leigh Shaw

[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