“It's just a passing thing,' Vishnu had told me about his girlfriend's beliefs. 'It's like their way of assimilating into the West.… — Gary Shteyngart Faith Copy Share Image
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice -… — Gary Shteyngart Different Copy Share Image
“The situation was clear: They were two astronauts on a cold planet. He was, for his part, a gentle dissembler, a dodgy… — Gary Shteyngart Investing Copy Share Image
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there. — Gary Shteyngart Lucky Copy Share Image
Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object… — Gary Shteyngart Air Copy Share Image
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country… — Gary Shteyngart Age Copy Share Image
“IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS VEHICLE ("THE OBJECT") UNTIL YOU ARE .5 MILES FROM THE SECURITY PERIMETER OF… — Gary Shteyngart Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece… — Gary Shteyngart America 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 Books Copy Share Image
“The past is haunting us. In Queens, in Manhattan, it is shadowing us, punching us in the stomach. I am small, and… — Gary Shteyngart Parenting Copy Share Image
I have my own dying empire to contend with, and I do not wish for any other. — Gary Shteyngart Dying Copy Share Image
Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many… — Gary Shteyngart Age Copy Share Image
“Just don’t write like a self -hating Jew,” my father is whispering into my ear.” — Gary Shteyngart Parenting Copy Share Image
“Cereal is food, sort of. It tastes grainy, easy and light, with a hint of false fruitiness. It tastes the way America… — Gary Shteyngart Food Copy Share Image
“After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but… — Gary Shteyngart Children Copy Share Image
“There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.” — Gary Shteyngart Fucked up Copy Share Image
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. — Gary Shteyngart America Copy Share Image
Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I… — Gary Shteyngart Am 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 Feels Copy Share Image
I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I… — Gary Shteyngart Certain Copy Share Image
We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts… — Gary Shteyngart Computers Copy Share Image
“It's special because it's not special, and hence it makes Cohen feel special for choosing it.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“These kinds of lost, overeducated mama’s boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart. — Gary Shteyngart Heart Copy Share Image
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly. — Gary Shteyngart Cursing Copy Share Image
