The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

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

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.

I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.