175 Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.

The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

The bookshelves were lined with Joan Didion and Flannery O'Connor, a small, unexpected collection of musicalia, essay collections on Leonard Cohen and Neil Young. There was a framed poster of an exhibit of romantic landscape paintings in Dresden. Intellectuals had their own thing going, that was for sure.

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.