For more information, see the Wikipedia Mark Twain (pen name of
Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was an American author, humorist, and
atheist. Twain wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, and numerous other classic works. Twain was known
for his keen wit and biting satire. Faulkner considered him "the
father of American Literature". - Letters from the Earth -
Thoughts of God - "Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he
is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him;
has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and
watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and
thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea." - "There are those
who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow.
Yet it was the schoolboy who said, "Faith is believing what you
know ain't so." - "One of the proofs of the immortality of the
soul is that myriads have believed in it. They have also
believed the world was flat." - "The gods offer no rewards for
intellect. The