LOVE After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. - Adam's Diary LOVE-irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. - Mark Twain Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes - none knows whence - and cannot explain itself. - Eve's Diary Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast. - The Memorable Assassination essay The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing. - Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959, preface When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. - Notebook, 1898 Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Mark Twain's Notebook True love is the only heart disease that is best left to "run on"- the only affection of the heart for which there is no help, and none desired. - Mark Twain's Notebook The course of free love never runs smooth. I suppose we have all tried it. - Notebook, 1904