Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

Humiliation and indifference, these are conditions every one of us finds unbearable — this is why the Coyote when falling is more concerned with the audience’s opinion of him than he is with the inevitable result of too much gravity.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

The road is better than the inn.