Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at… — Gary Shteyngart Always Copy Share Image
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was… — Gary Shteyngart Art Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.” — Gary Shteyngart Alone Copy Share Image
I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I… — Gary Shteyngart Cruelty 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 America Copy Share Image
She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young… — Gary Shteyngart Body Copy Share Image
Do not throw away your heart. Keep your heart. Your heart is all that matters ... Throw away your ancestors! ... Throw… — Gary Shteyngart Accepting Copy Share Image
“I told her my father was a retired janitor who liked to go fishing. She told me her father was a podiatrist… — Gary Shteyngart Marriage Copy Share Image
“Joshie had always told Post-Human Services staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were, because every moment our brains and… — Gary Shteyngart Different person Copy Share Image
“The three things I had going for me: an inbred Russian willingness to get drunk and chummy, an inbred Jewish willingness to… — Gary Shteyngart Three things 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
“If we can't take care of each other now, when the world is going to shit, how are we ever going to… — 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 Bars Copy Share Image
“I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.” — Gary Shteyngart Childhood Copy Share Image
The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful. — Gary Shteyngart Beautiful 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 Able Copy Share Image
“For the first time in my life, I felt sorry for Jesus. Sorry that the miracles ascribed to him hadn’t actually made… — Gary Shteyngart First time Copy Share Image
“a dessert made out of a dozen matzohs, a gallon of cream and amaretto liqueur, and a tub of raspberries. What I… — Gary Shteyngart Parenting Copy Share Image
“Were all men separated from their children and wives by an invisible ribbon of cluelessness?” — Gary Shteyngart Children Copy Share Image
“Alyosha-Bob and I have an interesting hobby that we indulge whenever possible. We think of ourselves as The Gentlemen Who Like To… — Gary Shteyngart Ice cube Copy Share Image
Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more. — Gary Shteyngart Alcohol 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
“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
“Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
