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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. — Mark Leyner

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make an arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully. — Vincent Van Gogh

I guess I can picture things once they're done - I just can't picture actually doing them. — Mark Leyner

But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death. — Mark Leyner

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers. — Mark Leyner

I've always been entranced with theater. — Mark Leyner

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, narcissistic way necessarily. — Mark Leyner

fate is the ultimate preexisting condition. — Mark Leyner

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity. — Mark Leyner

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

We have nothing in this life of suffocating obligation but our motherfucking impudence! — Mark Leyner

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere. — Arthur Rimbaud

Even those who consider all this total bullshit have to concede that it's upscale, artisanal bullshit of the highest order. — Mark Leyner

If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied. — Ian McKellen

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness." — Mark Leyner

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind. — Mark Leyner

It's in great joy that we grasp truth. — Mark Leyner

My idea with my work is always to fashion something that's impossible to transpose into any other media. — Mark Leyner

Man's most serious activity is play. — George Santayana

Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker! — Mark Leyner

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us. — Anthony Storr

Courage of the heart is very rare," she said with sudden calm. "Let it guide you. — Sarah J. Maas

Studies have failed to find any
substantial evidence proving a relationship between sugar consumption and hyperactivity. — Mark Leyner

Are the Gods real or is Ike Karton just crazy? And the answer is: Yes. — Mark Leyner

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look. — Mark Leyner

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, though. — Mark Leyner

I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth, I just recommend it to everyone. — Malcolm Forbes

America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards! — Gary Shteyngart

There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back. — John Warner

Like all security, privacy is hard. — Cory Doctorow

Anna has confessed to being a night owl, mostly due to staying up reading. — Kristen Callihan

There's a tremendous number of the Daytona Prototypes. — Bobby Rahal

I was an infinitely hot and dense dot. — Mark Leyner

I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before. — Mark Leyner

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants. — Stephen King