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

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

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.

We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.

Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.

Reading sparks writing.

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.