I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.
Gary ShteyngartRemember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
Gary ShteyngartGood fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
Gary ShteyngartWe're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.
Gary Shteyngart