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
“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
“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of… — Gary Shteyngart Exhaustion 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
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
“Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“In her bones, this may still be her country. But she will not touch it with her hands the way I do,… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up… — Gary Shteyngart Book 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
“The reflexive sense of wonder, of crying over a medal of the Madonna del Granduca and not knowing why, will be mostly… — Gary Shteyngart Humor 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 Diary 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
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 Copy Share Image
“I prepared for my meal in the usual fashion: fork in my left hand; my dominant right clenched into a fist on… — Gary Shteyngart Food 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
“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
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared. — Gary Shteyngart Lakes Copy Share Image
