A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.
Mark TwainWe need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
Mark TwainThe political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.
Mark Twain