My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
- Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961(1981) edited by Carlos Baker
