175 Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.

All love is socioeconomic. It’s the gradients in status that make arousal possible.

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

Everyone struggles. Each life comes with a long catalog of pain.

There's nothing wrong with her except she's completely fucked up.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished'*--Czeslaw Milosz.*And, I might add, if the family isn't finished, then the writer is.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.