Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is th... - Mark Twain

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

"One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."