Quotes from John Lennard

Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.

All plays are implicitly political by virtue of the subject-matter, form, and linguistic registers they contain, and the audience for whom they are intended; all productions are implicitly political because the resources they consume are denied to another play, company and space.

There is also a running wobble between extreme precision, specious or otherwise, and approximation ("just over fifteen hundred", "just over sixty-nine percent"), so the whole risks annoying non-geek and ultra-geek readers, garnering the worst of both worlds.