175 Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.

I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look on the YouTube. I love acting - it's great.

In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.

Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.

Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you can have ten shots of vodka and be perfectly okay. If I had ten beers, I would be liquidated.