Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.Douglas Coupland
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time.Douglas Coupland
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
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.Douglas Coupland
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.Salman Rushdie
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.Salman Rushdie
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.Salman Rushdie
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.Douglas Coupland