I used to think I knew how to use commas. But then I spent years being beta-read and general-editored and having Erin type [DELETE COMMA] so many times I'm surprised she didn't break her keyboard, so now I'm back to being blissfully ignorant. Well, I do have a better understanding now, I suppose, but mostly I just let my betas and editors worry about it laugh

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K