My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
Gary ShteyngartThe best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. Theres never a need to feel lost anymore.
Gary ShteyngartI always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
Gary ShteyngartI love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, theyโve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
Gary ShteyngartSummer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think weโre young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until weโre standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.
Gary Shteyngart