I like commas.

“Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minu…”

“Life's nothing but the beating you take before you die. And I've died so many t…”

“That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in so…”

“Tut, tut. We can't let mere sentiment intrude. This is Science.”