“If my name were Mark Twain, I’d write under the pseudonym “Samuel Clemens.”
“I’d never name my kid Mark, for fear he’d be a target—a mark.”
“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."[Mark Twain, a Biography]”
“If it’s not already written, I want to write a book called, “The Art of Raw.” But instead of using my real name, I’ll use the pseudonym, “Sun Tzushi.”
“Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”