I’m not sure if this is of interest to you, but at least it’s another quote which deals with specific matters of punctuation: In his lecture on Flaubert’s style, VN says: “I want to draw attention first of all to Flaubert’s use of the word and preceded by a semicolon. (The semicolon is sometimes replaced by a lame comma in the English translations, but we will put the semicolon back.)…”