“I gave him a photocopy of who I was, without telling him that I was unhappy and humiliated and often, just like… — 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 Because 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 Become Copy Share Image
We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense. — Gary Shteyngart People 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 Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being… — Gary Shteyngart Acting 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 19th century Copy Share Image
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think… — Gary Shteyngart All day 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
The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet… — Gary Shteyngart Fitness Copy Share Image
“How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.” — Gary Shteyngart Reading Copy Share Image
I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to… — Gary Shteyngart Book Copy Share Image
Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything. — Gary Shteyngart Amount 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
“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
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that… — Gary Shteyngart Bags Copy Share Image
I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America. — Gary Shteyngart About Copy Share Image
“On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end… — Gary Shteyngart After death 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 Freckles 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
“That's what I admire about youngish Italians, the slow dimunition of ambition, the recognition that the best is far behind them.” — Gary Shteyngart Psychology Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Book 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. — Gary Shteyngart About Copy Share Image
Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a ready answer, cloaked in obstinate despair: It… — Gary Shteyngart Answers Copy Share Image
