“Mark Twain had written somewhere: We are all mad at night.”
“Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?”
“Ben smiled back, 'Mark Twain said a novel was a confession to everything by a man who had never done anything.”
“A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.”
“By God, if women had written stories,As clerks had within here oratories,They would have written of men more wickednessThan all the mark of Adam may redress.”
“Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.”