diff --git a/docs/language/api.rst b/docs/language/api.rst
index cb1297c..9c55e70 100644
--- a/docs/language/api.rst
+++ b/docs/language/api.rst
@@ -55,8 +55,13 @@ digits.
 string literals
 ---------------
 
-Unlike Python, Hy allows only double-quoted strings. The single-quote character
-is reserved for preventing the evaluation of a form, as in most Lisps.
+Unlike Python, Hy allows only double-quoted strings (e.g., ``"hello"``). The
+single-quote character ``'`` is reserved for preventing the evaluation of a
+form (e.g., ``'(+ 1 1)``), as in most Lisps.
+
+Python's so-called triple-quoted strings (e.g., ``'''hello'''`` and
+``"""hello"""``) aren't supported. However, in Hy, unlike Python, any string
+literal can contain newlines.
 
 Whether running under Python 2 or Python 3, Hy treats string literals as
 sequences of Unicode characters by default, and allows you to prefix a literal
@@ -65,6 +70,22 @@ Hy translates ``"foo"`` and ``b"foo"`` to the identical Python code, but when
 running under Python 2, ``"foo"`` is translated to ``u"foo"`` and ``b"foo"`` is
 translated to ``"foo"``.
 
+.. _syntax-keywords:
+
+keywords
+--------
+
+An identifier headed by a colon, such as ``:foo``, is a keyword. Keywords
+evaluate to a string preceded by the Unicode non-character code point U+FDD0,
+like ``"\ufdd0:foo"``, so ``:foo`` and ``":foo"`` aren't equal. However, if a
+literal keyword appears in a function call, it's used to indicate a keyword
+argument rather than passed in as a value. For example, ``(f :foo 3)`` calls
+the function ``f`` with the keyword argument named ``foo`` set to ``3``. Hence,
+trying to call a function on a literal keyword may fail: ``(f :foo)`` yields
+the error ``Keyword argument :foo needs a value``. To avoid this, you can quote
+the keyword, as in ``(f ':foo)``, or use it as the value of another keyword
+argument, as in ``(f :arg :foo)``.
+
 Built-Ins
 =========
 
diff --git a/docs/language/internals.rst b/docs/language/internals.rst
index 07b65bd..fec5e3b 100644
--- a/docs/language/internals.rst
+++ b/docs/language/internals.rst
@@ -160,12 +160,7 @@ HyKeyword
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
 ``hy.models.HyKeyword`` represents keywords in Hy. Keywords are
-symbols starting with a ``:``. The class inherits :ref:`HyString`.
-
-To distinguish :ref:`HyKeywords <HyKeyword>` from :ref:`HySymbols
-<HySymbol>`, without the possibility of (involuntary) clashes, the
-private-use unicode character ``"\uFDD0"`` is prepended to the keyword
-literal before storage.
+symbols starting with a ``:``. See :ref:`syntax-keywords`.
 
 .. _hycons: