Mark Twain Quote

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims and other salutary platform opinions (ed. Harpercollins, 1984)