“It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.”
Preface (page XIX)
The Great War for Civilization (2005)
“A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point.”
Quoted in Theatre Arts Magazine, December 1955 http://books.google.com/books?id=jkNNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+kiss+can+be+a+comma+a+question+mark+or+an+exclamation+point%22&pg=PA8#v=onepage
“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.”
Last letter to George Burns, as quoted in Two Minutes for God : Quick Fixes for the Spirit (2007) by Peter B. Panagore, p. 73; this was later used in a slogan for the United Church of Christ: "Never place a period where God has placed a comma. God Is Still Speaking."
“The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it.”
Source: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
“Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you
To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega!”
"Black Squirrel on Cottonwood Limb's Tip" in Skyhook #23 (Winter 1954-55); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Context: Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you
To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega! No use. No act
Of mine or mind denies the ante-cerebellum fact
Of furry you, poised fleetingly, bright flex,
Black reflex, too leaping for me to ink and fix
As period to end what has no period, no, no
End...
Letter to Charles Sawyer of Addison Gallery of Art October 19 , 1939
1911 - 1940
Conversation with Jean Martet (1 June 1928), Ch. 30
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)
