I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

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

Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.

That's what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.