Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.
David RakoffThere 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 itโs really true: I should have stayed home.
David RakoffI do not go outdoors. Not more than I have to. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.
David RakoffBeing a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.
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 RakoffI 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 Rakoff