Gary Shteyngart Quotes

“If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.”

“By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent.”

“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.”

“You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.”

“Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”

“The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.”