You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium,… — Mark Leyner Cleavage Copy Share Image
“And I still believe that there are two basic kinds of people--people who cultivate the narcissistic delusion of being watched at all… — Mark Leyner Time 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
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 life 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
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are… — Mark Leyner Believe 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
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
“We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence!” — Mark Leyner Life Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a poet at the beginning. I would look at my grandparents' books and my parents' books. And… — Mark Leyner Book 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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or… — Mark Leyner Extremity Copy Share Image