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.

In the future, there is no future.

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

People try to keep their past, like kind of holding on to their past. Every Springsteen song talks about that.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Of course, I think it is legitimate for the Commander-in-Chief to be concerned for the safety of his soldiers.