Also, 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 ShteyngartAmerica should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
Gary ShteyngartI'm the fortieth ugliest man in this bar. But so what! So what!... Isn't this how people used to fall in love?
Gary ShteyngartYou want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Gary ShteyngartThat's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Gary ShteyngartWe know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?
Gary Shteyngart