Just for the record: commas and periods go inside closing quotation marks, no matter what. Exclamation points and question marks are placed inside the quotes only if the entire quotation is an exclamation or a question; otherwise they go outside. Colons and semicolons belong outside the quotation marks. “Got it?” asked the editor, as she finished her talk, “Where the Commas Belong,” while the interns’ faces radiated “whatever”; one actually stormed out, proclaiming, “I don’t need this bull!” as he slammed the door.