"Weather is a literary specialty, and no..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.”

“[Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.”

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

“Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.”

“People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.”

“Preposition: An enormously versatile part of grammar, as in 'What made you pick this book I didn't want to be read to out of up for?'”

“I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.”

“I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.”

“There's no such thing as knowledge management;there are only knowledgeable people.Information only becomes knowledgein the hands of someonewho knows what to do with it.”