The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.

I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear. The insecurity that you feel, and the paranoia that you feel, have been around for a long time - you know it's a liar because it's been lying to you all along - every time you start something new.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

These guys who talk about free markets, they're not ideologues; they're crooks.

It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.