Mark Twain — "I was educated once – it took me years to get over it."

"There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting."

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

"The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell togethe…"

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."