I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.
Gary ShteyngartRemember this... develop a sense of nostalgia for something, or you'll never figure out what's important.
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 reveled in the smallness, the coziness of an upstairs bedroom in a traditional American Cape Cod house the half-floor that forces you to duck, to feel small and naive again, ready for anything, dying for love, your body a chimney filled with odd, black smoke. These square, squat, awkward rooms are like a fifty-square-foot paean to teenage-hood, to ripeness, to the first and last taste of youth.
Gary Shteyngart