When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and... - Mark Twain

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

"If books are not good company, where shall I find it?"

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

"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."