Citations:Sawyerian


 * 2006, Elijah Wald, Riding with Strangers: A Hitchhiker's Journey, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1556526059, :
 * At least in his later years, Twain's view was far darker. He had seen too much misery and failure to preserve the Sawyerian optimism of his youth. As a reader, I appreciate his cynicism and bitter humor, and will not deny the wisdom in it. But the lessons of Twain's old age, though bleaker than the lessons of his youth, are no more profound.