Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“For most of my life, I would have automatically said that I would opt for conscientious objector status, and in general, I… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“[L]ike most people, I like to think of myself as being spontaneous, ready for anything, fun. This is the evening’s second hard-won… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Should you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless, hair-trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“...hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper,… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“There is much in our culture to affront the eye of the fervent terrorist postulant, things out there that do us no… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“you happen to be possessed of a certain verbal acuity coupled with a relentless hair trigger humor and surface cheer spackling over… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Lying flat against the tile of the kitchen floor listening to someone else have sex is essentially my early twenties in a… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humour does.” — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“The hiking boots the outdoor adventure magazine sent me to buy - large, ungainly potato like things that I have been trying to break… — david rakoff Copy Share Image
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“We are disclosing animals, wired for unburdening. It's what we do as a species. When I am being told, I listen, mindful of the… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living A life that is good… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“The central drama of my life is about being a fraud, alas. That's a complete lie, really; the central drama of my life is… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“It was nice to find out, then, that if one is characterologically incapable of not being a total fuckface, science has not shown you… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“One day reach idealization; after all, it's the journey, not the destination.” — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
