quotes about Called By God

“I think that certainly my choices empower me.”

“If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.”

Source : "Gary Shteyngart: 'Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2010.

“What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.”

“If you were a tree, what kind would you be?”

“I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.”

“Debate is angular, conversation circular and radiant of the underlying unity.”

“If agricultural land be left uncultivated, in a few years the jungle returns, and signs are not lacking that a similar danger is always lying in wait for the fields of thought, which, by the labour of three hundred years, have been cleared and brought into cultivation by men of science. The destruction of a very small percentage of the population would suffice to annihilate scientific knowledge, and lead us back to almost universal belief in magic, witchcraft and astrology.”

“Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner”

“To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.”

“There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.”