“All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent. — Gary Shteyngart Consent Copy Share Image
Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more. — Gary Shteyngart Alcohol 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
“Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.” — Gary Shteyngart Books 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
“The world is harsh and inconsiderate, and you can rely only on your family.” — Gary Shteyngart Family Copy Share Image
I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible… — Gary Shteyngart 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 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
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 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
“This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.” — Gary Shteyngart Immigrant Copy Share Image
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need… — Gary Shteyngart 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
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 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
“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 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
“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 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 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
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
I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy like… — Gary Shteyngart 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
“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in… — Gary Shteyngart Future Copy Share Image
“From the moment I bought my ticket, I had a premonition I wasn’t returning to New York anytime soon. You Know, this… — Gary Shteyngart High school 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
“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
“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
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart 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 Copy Share Image
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future. — Gary Shteyngart Future 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 Country Copy Share Image
![“There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're all living in the future constantly . . . Back in the day Leo Tolstoy -- what a sweetheart of a count and of a writer -- in the 1860's he wanted to write about the Napoleonic Campaign, about…” quote by Gary Shteyngart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24f/gary-shteyngart-2177_future_there-s-no-present-left-this-is-the-prob_3224050.png)
