“Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.” — Gary Shteyngart Decision Copy Share Image
“It is a capital insult in this country not to make love to a naked woman, even if she is related to… — Gary Shteyngart Country Copy Share Image
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. — Gary Shteyngart Consent Copy Share Image
Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more. — Gary Shteyngart Alcohol Copy Share Image
“All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there. — Gary Shteyngart Lucky Copy Share Image
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense. — Gary Shteyngart Orient Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a… — Gary Shteyngart Love Copy Share Image
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
“The humiliation of growing up a Jew in the Soviet Union, of cleaning piss-stained bathrooms in the States, of worshiping a country… — Gary Shteyngart Humiliation Copy Share Image
“How desperately I wanted to forsake these facts, to open a smelly old book or to go down on a pretty young… — Gary Shteyngart Better world Copy Share Image
A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it… — Gary Shteyngart Advertising Copy Share Image
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy,… — Gary Shteyngart Analysis Copy Share Image
If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“I know this kind of girl,” Grace was saying. “It’s the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up… — Gary Shteyngart Grace Copy Share Image
“Cohen was on his knees taking a picture of a passing cloud, an unremarkable cirrus shaped as if it were sketched expressly… — Gary Shteyngart Concentration camp Copy Share Image
Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then… — Gary Shteyngart Books Copy Share Image
One should learn from a book. Books have a lot to teach us. They have a lot of empathy to impart to… — Gary Shteyngart Better yourself Copy Share Image
“I started to see it Eunice's way. We now had obligations to each other. Our families had failed us, and now we… — Gary Shteyngart Failure Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Belief Copy Share Image
“When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor with the impenetrable accent… — Gary Shteyngart Family Copy Share Image
“This would be the worst birthday of his life. Vladimir's best friend Baobab was down in Florida covering his rent, doing unspeakable… — Gary Shteyngart Best friend Copy Share Image
“But I knew it wasn't just the cute girl on the screen that had made Eunice cry. It was her father laughing,… — Gary Shteyngart Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“A few hours later, lying on a mat during rest time, Vladimir embraced the tiny curled-up creature beside him, his first best… — Gary Shteyngart Side by side Copy Share Image
“From the moment I bought my ticket, I had a premonition I wasn’t returning to New York anytime soon. You Know, this… — Gary Shteyngart High school Copy Share Image
“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in… — Gary Shteyngart Future Copy Share Image
“I hate the Fourth of July. The early middle age of summer. Everything is alive and kicking for now, but the eventual… — Gary Shteyngart Believe in god Copy Share Image
“I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.” — Gary Shteyngart Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?” — Gary Shteyngart Children Copy Share Image
![“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about…” quote by Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/24f/gary-shteyngart-2177_future_there-s-no-present-left-this-is-the-prob_3224050.png)
