Politics Has Become Incendiary. People Don't Find

Mark Twain Married The Daughter Of One Of New York State's Leading Abolitionists, Jervis Langdon, Who Helped Frederick Douglass Who Became The Great Negro Leader To Escape From Slavery.

[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.

Man Looks In The Abyss, There's Nothing Staring Back At Him. At That Moment, Man Finds His Character. And That Is What Keeps Him Out Of The Abyss.

When The Audience Begins To See The Sunrise On That It's Hard For Them To Turn Away From It Because They're Listening To A Man Talking To Them From Over A Century Ago. And Nothing Has Changed. So What Are You Going To Do About That?

I Never, Ever Update Mark Twain. I Don't Modernize It. I Let The Audience Update The Material. When I Go Out On Stage, I'm Trying To Make The Audience Believe They're Looking At This Guy Who Died 104 Years Ago And Listening To Him And Saying To Themselves, "jesus, He Could Be Talking About Today." And That's The Point.