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.

[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.

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

[mark] Twain Was A Publisher. He Published General Grant's Memoirs (a Big Success) And Had A Hand In The Publishing Of Many Of His Own Books. He Would, I Think, Be Very Keen About The Question Of How A Book Would Sell.

The Main Thing About Money, Bud, Is That It Makes You Do Things You Don't Want To Do.