Gary Shteyngart

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.

I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.