More quotes by Mark Twain

"What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."
"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
"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."