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.

I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.

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.

I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

The main thing about money, Bud, is that it makes you do things you don't want to do.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope

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.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Life gave me lemons, then I met you and you had Vodka. Now my life is a party.

The Holy One is a flame.

Those who care about me will forget me but, those who love me will never let go of me.

Pull your pants up, would you?" Honor said, tugging on his low-slung shorts. "They're about to fall off.""That's how the ladies like 'em.

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

Could hate a person, but in fact it's not worth it. Never know how long you've got on this earth, kid.

Shantaram is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to Shantaram, the first a prequel.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.