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 so much against fun - although I suppose I kind of am - as I am the opposite of fun. I suck the fun out of a room. Or perhaps I'm just a different kind of fun; the kind that leaves on bereft of hope; the kind of fun that ends in tears.
David RakoffI have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.
David RakoffIf psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaismโs way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th centuryโs way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that Iโm impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?
David RakoffThere's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.
David Rakoff