Quotes by : David Rakoff

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of....

if psychoanalysis was late-19th-century secular Judaism's way of constructing spiritual meaning in a....

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status,....

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are....

Is there some lesson on how to be friends?I think what it means is that central to livinga life that....

A half roll of Life Savers fused to the pockets,And in yet another, a lone unwrapped mintHad bundled....

When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration,....

Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my....

Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's....