I Tended To Lean Toward Character Work.

I Got A Feeling About Political Correctness. I Hate It. It Causes Us To Lie Silently Instead Of Saying What We Think.

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.

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.

[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.

I Think I May Drop Dead On The Stage Someday. I Hate To Think Of It. But It's Getting Tough On Me, The Travel. The Show, I Somehow Manage To Rise Up To It, You Know. But I Have No Desire To Retire.