"People are here to serve. We cannot waste potential."

“We all die. It's just a question of when.”

“Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on,”

“A foreign company in a comparable industry should pay the same as a domestic company, even if their products aren't produced here. That can be achieved using measures in corporate tax law.”

“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.

“People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.”

Source : "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

“Not just chubby fat, I'm talkin' gordo”

“Everybody dreams, but memory for dreams is famously elusive. Even Sigmund Freud, without the benefit of modern technology's electroencephalogram, or EEG, did not know that adult humans dream 90 minutes per night, and that newborns spend eight hours per day dreaming (out of their 16 hours of sleep). REM sleep helps grow the brain!”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

“Once I knew that I wanted to be an artist, I had made myself into one. I did not understand that wanting doesn't always lead to action. Many of the women had been raised without the sense that they could mold and shape their own lives, and so, wanting to be an artist (but without the ability to realize their wants) was, for some of them, only an idle fantasy, like wanting to go to the moon.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.