The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow there is no humor in Heaven. – Mark Twain
It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. – Mark Twain
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. – Mark Twain
Why shouldnt truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. – Mark Twain
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness. – Kitty Kelley