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

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

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

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.