“If you own a copy of The Elements of Style, just destroy the damned thing. It is a pestilential presence in your library. Most of the rules of style it contains are vacuous, arbitrary, or impossible to obey, and you are better off without them in your life. And the materials on grammar and usage are frequently something worse. Some of them are simply inherited fake rubrics—‘however’ must always be a postpositive, ‘which’ must not be used for a restrictive relative clause, and other nonsense of that kind—all of which are belied by the whole canon of English literature.” – David Bentley Hart, “How to Write English Prose”