[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

Politics has become incendiary. People don't find it so funny now so I have to be careful, but I have to wake them up with some truths and the truths I aim at them are over 100 years old. Facts that no one can dispute.

[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.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.