There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.
David RakoffI have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.
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 RakoffIf psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, what does it mean that I’m impersonating the father of psychoanalysis in a store window to commemorate a religious holiday?
David Rakoff