Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.Douglas Coupland
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.Douglas Coupland
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.Douglas Coupland
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.Salman Rushdie
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.Salman Rushdie
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.Salman Rushdie
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.Douglas Coupland
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.Douglas Coupland
