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Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated - Japan's attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

To some people, the fact that I am not married, or don't have children, would be the reason I have written a book on punctuation.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and ambitions.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there's gonna come a time that you're gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Years are not important, my dear.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.