The best site on the use of quotation marks:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/Grammar/marks/quotation.htm
Question 16
Use quotation marks to set off the exact words of someone else in all but which of the following options?
Up to three lines of poetry
A brief phrase
Short quoted passages of less than four lines
Long quotations of more than four lines
Question 17
In a direct quotation, use ________ to separate the spoken words from the rest of the sentence.
a capital letter
an exclamation point
a question mark
a comma
3 answers
In a direct quotation,use a comma to separate the spoken words from the rest of the sentence.
11 years later, I still have no idea what this is.