“Punctuation, is? fun!”

“Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.”

“Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.”

“Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.”

“I did speak extensively — often quite critically — about the reviled work of Richard Goldschmidt, particularly about aspects of his thought that might merit a rehearing. This material has often been confused with punctuated equlibrium by people who miss the crucial issue of scaling, and therefore regard all statements about rapidity at any level as necessarily unitary, and necessarily flowing from punctuated equilibrium. In fact, as the long treatment in Chapter 5 of this book should make clear, my interest in Goldschmidt resides in issues bearing little relationship with punctuated equilibrium, but invested instead in developmental questions that prompted my first book, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. The two subjects, after all, are quite separate, and rooted in different scales of rapidity — hopeful monsters in genuine saltation, and punctuated equilibrium in macroevolutionary punctuation”

“Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.”

“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings”

“The vocabulary of growth must be held in position by the grammar of financial discipline and the punctuations of a social ideology.”

“In this crucial sense, the theory of punctuated equilibrium adopts a very conservative position. The theory asserts no novel claim about modes or mechanisms of speciation; punctuated equilibrium merely takes a standard microevolutionary model and elucidates its expected expression when properly scaled into geological time.”

“Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.”