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Mark Twain was born on the day when Halley’s Comet flew by earth. He said “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” Halley’s Comet next appeared on April 21, 1910 which is the day Mark…

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Mark Twain is A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

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Mark Twain is a writer who future historians of America will find as indispensable as a French historian finds the political tracts of Voltaire.

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Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 when Haley’s Comet came into view, and passed away on April 10, 1910, a day after Haley’s Comet came into view again.

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Mark Twain is that writer whose work, Huckleberry Finn, is the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

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Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.

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Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla were good friends.

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