Gary Shteyngart Quotes

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

Online shopping makes everything so much easier - it's a bad habit of mine.

I want it all - and I would like it delivered.

I think for Amazon's customers, it offers a kind of addictive service - the ability to shop without leaving your house, the ability to read without going to a bookstore or a library.

Average Americans order nonfat decaf iced vanilla lattes at Starbucks and choose from 1,500 drawer pulls at The Great Indoors. Amazon gives every town a bookstore with 2 million titles, while Netflix promises 35,000 different movies on DVD. Choice is everywhere - liberating to some, but to others, a new source of stress.

I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

There are a whole bunch of people who don't like to shop. But there are also people, maybe, who even do like to shop but are very time pressured. And so shopping online can save people time.

I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Once I lived for a year in another city, and almost every waking hour of my life was spent going to stores, buying things, loading them into the car, bringing them home, unloading them, and carrying them into the house. How anyone gets anything done in these places is a mystery to me.

There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.

I shop a lot online... and just the ease of it makes a lot more sense.

Every year we are greeted by a host of new apps that will 'change the way we think' about ordering takeout, 'fundamentally transform' our shoe purchases, or 'revolutionize' the way we edit photos.

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

I quickly realized that shopping on Amazon had made the idea of parking my car and going into a store feel like an outrageous imposition on my time and good nature.

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

I like to shop. That's what I do. Online shopping; any kind of shopping.

I do most of my shopping online. It's just convenient for me.

It feels so weird to be able to just kind of buy things when I want them or need them.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.

I'm quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids.

I think we live in a culture that is actually hedging all of it towards comfort and immediacy, things that scare me. All the things that they sell us as a way of life scare me.