I actually finished a book today

for the first time in weeks.

Because I quit my job.

¡Doh!

Punctuation thus becomes the signature of cultures. The hot-blooded Spaniard seems to be revealed in the passion and urgency of his doubled exclamation points and question marks ("Caramba! Quien sabe?")...

- Pico Iyer, 'In Praise of the Humble Comma', Time