I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That’s one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
A lot of the ways of advertising a book – the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore – those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you’re going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell’s the point? Just do fiction.
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
Everyone struggles. Each life comes with a long catalog of pain.
I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.
