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Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.

Mark Twain gave us an insight into the life on the Mississippi at the turn of the century.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

Mark Twain is as big as America. He really is.

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

Martin Luther King fought for blacks, and democratic whites were with him.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that.