On Kristi's answer to her co-worker's grammar question:

"I didn't answer wrong; I answered British!"

New quote (discovered by Matt):

"Most editors are failed writers. But then, so are most writers." - T.S. Eliot.

I think I shall make it my email signature...

"If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children."
Madeleine L'Engle, 1918-2007

I think the truth in this was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt this semester in my attempt to make my professor understand my screenplay adaptation of L'Engle's A Swiftly Tilting Planet.