The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he…

“China reminds me most of America at its own moment of transformation—the period that Mark Twain and Charles Warner named the Gilded Age, when…

— Evan Osnos

“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom…

— Norman Lock

Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good copy comes…

— Samuel Fuller

To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.

— Robin Williams

“Never let school get in the way of your education. Mark Twain”

— Evelyn Krieger

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. Â Mark Twain

— Mark Twain

'Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.' Mark Twain

— Anonymous

“If my name were Mark Twain, I’d write under the pseudonym “Samuel Clemens.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual…

— Pete Hamill

I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian.

— Tina Fey

“The truth is a fragile thing, but a lie, well told, can live forever. “ — Mark Twain”

— Rebecca Nugent