[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

I have a suicide impulse.

One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.