Dystopian Author Quotes

Gary Shteyngart The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (…) beautiful.

Gary Shteyngart My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

Gary Shteyngart She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes […]

Gary Shteyngart Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won’t matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

Gary Shteyngart That’s what tyrants do, I guess. They make you covet their attention; they make you confuse attention for mercy.

Gary Shteyngart 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 […]

Gary Shteyngart If I still lived in Russia, I’d be dead… or a really effective oligarch.

Gary Shteyngart Before my first novel, I was dating a woman who later went to prison for bashing a guy with a hammer.

Gary Shteyngart You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.