Quotes by : David Rakoff

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

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily....

I had a tumor. But it was great.

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.

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

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,....

I am no fun at all. In fact, I am anti-fun. Not as in anti-violence, but as in anti-matter. I am not....

Almost any age is better than twenty-two.