The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind. — Mark Leyner Interesting Copy Share Image
My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media. — Mark Leyner Fashion Copy Share Image
“We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!” — Mark Leyner Impudence Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as kind of an anarchist all my whole adult life, from the days when I was 15 or 16. — Mark Leyner Adult Copy Share Image
“Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes.” — Mark Leyner Crazy Copy Share Image
I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner Apocalyptic Copy Share Image
I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner Apocalyptic Copy Share Image
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have… — Mark Leyner I can Copy Share Image
In me, speaking psychologically, there is always an ongoing struggle between my enormously self-regarding, almost delusionally aspirational, Napoleonic personality and a marginalized… — Mark Leyner Personality Copy Share Image
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight… — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
“The Imaginary Intern and I used to say, 'The mind going is the mind coming,' which we meant not only in terms… — Mark Leyner Coming Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end,… — Mark Leyner Art Copy Share Image
“One of the things about Ike that makes him so indisputably a hero is that he doesn't leave his own contradictions to… — Mark Leyner Authenticity Copy Share Image
Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so… — Mark Leyner Cats Copy Share Image
“studies have failed to find any substantial evidence proving a relationship between sugar consumption and hyperactivity.” — Mark Leyner Food Copy Share Image
I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie,… — Mark Leyner Conscious Copy Share Image
“There are enigmas that we can gnaw on throughout our lives from which we derive sustenance, some kind of spiritual nourishment...I'm thinking… — Mark Leyner Enigmas Copy Share Image
“I also think my mom 'suffers' from something one might call Pollyanna's paranoia, an irrational suspicion that there are people out there… — Mark Leyner Good thing Copy Share Image
“If I were ever asked by some young, sensitive writer just starting out, what key lesson I've learned in life (which I'll… — Mark Leyner Aperture Copy Share Image
People have no idea how much work it is for a man to produce an ejaculation. You have this seminal vesicle churning… — Mark Leyner Chef Copy Share Image
“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all… — Mark Leyner Childhood Copy Share Image
“Why would we not only believe, but become eternally beholden to some unctuous car salesman who claims to be putting the lives… — Mark Leyner Car salesman Copy Share Image
I think as I have gotten older, my feelings about my role in the culture as a writer, and me specifically, has… — Mark Leyner Changed Copy Share Image
“On our last mission - our "final exam" - we were airlifted to a remote region, and we parachuted directly into a… — Mark Leyner Goals Copy Share Image
“It's the same thing that makes all pop music so heartbreaking. Even when Miley Cyrus sings "So I put my hands up,… — Mark Leyner Miley cyrus Copy Share Image
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was… — Mark Leyner Adam Copy Share Image
“Yes, the hermitage is underground--miles beneath the surface of Antarctica. And yes, Ike refers to it as unten--literally 'under' or 'below.' But,… — Mark Leyner Anal Copy Share Image
“...Someone can intentionally fake blindness for some secondary gain (malingering)--a prisoner who says he can't see in order to try to avoid… — Mark Leyner Eyes Seen Copy Share Image
“I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're… — Mark Leyner Deception Copy Share Image
“We're living in a world in which we're all survived, targeted, herded, and indoctrinated to an unprecedented degree. Our fallen, debased state… — Mark Leyner Ideology Copy Share Image
“Bro, we're living in the Kali Yuga, a Dark Age of petite bourgeoisie ideology, a petite bourgeoisie ideology whose resources and ruses… — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
“There is something unspeakably consoling in one's own smile. In that reflection, you can discern the face of yourself as a child… — Mark Leyner Books Copy Share Image
I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity. — Mark Leyner Animated Copy Share Image
I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness." — Mark Leyner Games Copy Share Image
