Quotes by : Gary Shteyngart

There's no present left. This is the problem for a novelist. [The problem] is the present is gone. We're....

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not....

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities....

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden.....

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Joshie has always told Post Human Services Staff to keep a diary, to remember who we were because every....

I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate,....