“Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.”

Samuel Clemens was an American writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his satirical novels *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn* and *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, which blend humor with sharp social commentary. His wit and keen observations on human nature remain widely influential.