New York is breaking my heart. Iโve often said that itโs like having a really interesting boyfriend suddenly becoming really, really into wine, and having to have endless conversations about it.
David RakoffI 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 wouldnโt be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.
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