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 …

- David Rakoff

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss th…

- David Rakoff

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

- David Rakoff

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

- David Rakoff

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 …

- David Rakoff

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetim…

- David Rakoff

Everybody's got something. In the end, what choice does one really have but to understand that truth, to really take it in, and then shop for groceri…

- David Rakoff

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're crea…

- David Rakoff

Being 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…

- David Rakoff