Mark Twain Cannot Be Defined.

Man Is The Religious Animal. He Is The Only One That's Got True Religion, Several Of Them.

I Have A Suicide Impulse.

I Don't Have A Director. The Audience Directs Me.

If We Want To Understand The Actions Of A Man In The Early 1860's, Put Yourself Back There In His Shoes. As A Young Man He Began Piloting Steamboats On The Mississippi, A Job He Loved And Wanted To Do The Rest Of His Life, He Said. The Civil War Ended Traffic On The River And His Job. He Wrote About It In A History Of A Campaign That Failed. He Said: "i Joined The Confederacy, Served For Two Weeks, Deserted, And The Confederacy Fell." His Attachment To The Southern Ideal Of Slavery Does Not Appear Very Sturdy.

We Live In A Democracy. We Have This Extraordinary Opportunity To Use Our Mind And Say What We Think, Speak As We Think. Sometimes What We Say Is Objectionable To Other People. But That Is Part Of A Free Society