David Rakoff Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.”

“I don't particularly consider myself an actor. I have no training. I love doing it, but I would never consider myself to be a colleague of an actual actor. That would be stepping way up in class on my part.”

“I value kindness in myself and others. I try to remain super-vigilant about my targets and make extra sure that my sometimes barbed comments are deserved and in response to genuine malefaction.”

“It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.”

“Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.”

“I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.”

“I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.”

“My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.”

“Arts and crafts, or getting to be in a play with people, or making a little short film, that's pure sugar, because the stakes are so low.”

“Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.”