Gary Shteyngart

So he will walk down the street and there's a corner where every dog pees on and he approaches it like a Talmudic scholar, you know, and he he sniffs here, he sniffs there.

Yes, Rocco was here at 1230.

That's right.

That's right.

Let's remember that, you know, he loves and his tail is wagging away.

He's just enjoying the hell out of life.

He enjoys this more than he loves food, obviously, but food is.

So we all have this part in us that is able to enjoy things on this crazy level.

It's most of it is free.

Some of my hobbies are slightly expensive, but most of this stuff is wonderfully free.

It's all around us, you know.

So the more and the more I live, also, I find in some ways that the sense of ambition that, you know, that younger people have is.

diminishes in some good ways.

As I sort of see what the rest of my life will look like, I'm fine with it.

Maybe good things will happen.

Maybe some terrible things will happen.

But I'm more or less okay with it as long as that sense of enjoyment doesn't leave me.

The other thing that I talk about in The Sensualist is that I recently, two of my most sensual friends have died recently.

And it was remarkably sad, obviously, to watch them die of cancer in their early 50s in my generation.

Incredibly sad.