“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
“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.” — Gary Shteyngart Help Copy Share Image
“Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die.” — Gary Shteyngart Decision Copy Share Image
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. — Gary Shteyngart Beautiful Copy Share Image
Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer. — Gary Shteyngart Bashing Copy Share Image
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart Dead Copy Share Image
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future. — Gary Shteyngart Future Copy Share Image
“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.” — Gary Shteyngart Books Copy Share Image
When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the… — Gary Shteyngart Away Copy Share Image
“That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.” — Gary Shteyngart Italians Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true.… — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities -… — Gary Shteyngart Beer 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 Feel Copy Share Image
If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the… — Gary Shteyngart Girl Copy Share Image
“Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience… — Gary Shteyngart Childhood 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 Complete Copy Share Image
“I wanted to confront her, to make her see the folly of her religion, to change her diet, to help her spend… — Gary Shteyngart Folly Copy Share Image
Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties… — Gary Shteyngart Affair Copy Share Image
“I remember reading the Times in the subway, folding it awkwardly while leaning against the door, caught up in the words, worried… — Gary Shteyngart Beauty Copy Share Image
“I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate… — Gary Shteyngart Hate 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 Awkward 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
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 Accounts 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
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have… — Gary Shteyngart Civil war 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,… — Gary Shteyngart Afterlife Copy Share Image
“I am scared of the photo studio. I am scared of the telephone. Scared of anything outside our apartment. Scared of the… — Gary Shteyngart Electric current 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
“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
“Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every moment, our brains… — Gary Shteyngart Childhood 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
“The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.” — Gary Shteyngart Family 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 Bars 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
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there. — Gary Shteyngart Lucky Copy Share Image
