People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that's the way people think. I don't think people think in essays; it's one exclamation point to another.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

If it needed emphasis, underline and exclamation point, Katrina did that,

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.