Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.
Lobbyists in Washington are making six figure salaries selling our government out to the corporate interests and we just sit and smile as if nothing is happening while the poor folks are getting poorer and their pharmaceutical bills rise.
Why do I keep performing at my age? What else am I going to do? Play golf? I tried that years ago and all I did was cuss. I can do that without the walk, cuss at Congress and let [Mark]Twain do it. "Imagine that you were an idiot. And then imagine that you were a member of Congress. Wait - I've repeated myself. "
The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.
I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
I've had a very full career in the theater, on stage, in films and on television.
I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
YouTube has gotten so big that you're not a standard unless YouTube adopts you. And that's a big fight.
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
Throughout history, fairly arbitrary lines drawn on maps have determined who prospers and who needs, who eats and who starves, who attacks and who is attacked, who lives long and who dies young. Oh, we have been slaves to those lines for so long.