After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.

If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.

The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

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

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.

Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking.

Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.

They say that this century is going to be an Asian Century. I am very clear that without embracing the path and ideals shown by Gautam Buddha this century cannot be an Asian century!

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.