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.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it.

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.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.