Twain, Mark

Cosby had turned down the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor twice before.

Mark Twain famously said courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

At twenty-five, I started to write a book about Mark Twain at twenty-five.

I thought of Mark Twain, as I imagined Lincoln inhabiting the voice Huck Finn might have had as an adult.

Aleichem became one of the most popular Jewish authors of the time, hailed as the Jewish Mark Twain.

It is not, as Mark Twain would say, that there is anything the matter with it, Scotch beef is the best in the world.

It is thought by my family to be an excellent likeness of Mark Twain.

And Mark Twain's method is his own as intimately as the puppets of his imagining.

In calm, as in flood, Mark Twain has mastered the river, and has made it his own.

Of course this was a long time before Mark Twain went there and wept over the tomb of Adam.