"The confusion of the possessive 'its'...with the contractive 'it's'...is an unequivocal sign of illiteracy and sets off a simple Pavlovian 'kill' response in the average stickler... Getting your itses [sic] mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation... If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', [sic] 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 herds words together, keeps others apart. Punctuation directs you how to read, in the way musical notation directs a musician how to play."

"Part of one's despair, of course, is that the world cares nothing for the little shocks endured by the sensitive stickler. While we look in horror at a badly punctuated sign, the world carries on around us, blind to our plight. We are like the little boy in 'The Sixth Sense' who can see dead people, except that we can see dead punctuation."