"Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children."
- Gary Shteyngart
"I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time."
"As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn."
"The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book se..."
"My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the ..."
"The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on to..."
"She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning."
"I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity."
"In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great."
"I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing."