Quotes by : David Rakoff

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

The logic underlying the truism that one should always travel on a plane with a book is also precisely....

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,....

I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the....

one day Satan himself visits, along with his great-grandmother—who is, not surprisingly, a total fucking....

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,....

...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither....

It must be murder to be an aging beauty, a former Tadzio, to see your future as an ignored spectator....