"Nerds... the 'nerd' has never been precisely defined, thanks to the psychological complexity of the ..." — Tom Wolfe

If I had my choice, I would be writing by typewriter. I worked on newspapers for 10 years. I typed with the touch system, and unfortunately, you can't keep typewriters going today. You have to take the ribbons back to be re-inked. You have to - it's a horrible search to try to find missing parts. So I went to the computer.

Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice.

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.

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.