Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are.
Mark TwainThe true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
Mark TwainDying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!
Mark TwainThe banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]
Mark TwainWhen we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.
Mark Twain