“All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.” — Gary Shteyngart 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 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 Copy Share Image
I'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love? — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie… — 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'm the fortieth-ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what! What if someday she lets me kiss each one… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The reflexive sense of wonder, of crying over a medal of the Madonna del Granduca and not knowing why, will be mostly… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. — 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
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I love things on the decline because that's really the natural progression of our lives. We're born, we're feisty for the first… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“My poor Eunice looked so tired when she huffed off the bus with her many bags that I nearly tackled her in… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
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.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
