I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.
David RakoffJust think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.
David RakoffI have so little control over the act of writing that it's all I can do to remain conscious.
David Rakoff