Quotes by : Gary Shteyngart

The humiliation of growing up a Jew in the Soviet Union, of cleaning piss-stained bathrooms in the States,....

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

My mother is changing history. She is making her balalaika-smashing mother into a heroine. Does she want....

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty....

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

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

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly....

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite....

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