Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
Gary ShteyngartPeople always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
Gary ShteyngartIn America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
Gary ShteyngartAlso, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.
Gary Shteyngart