The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
Douglas CouplandIt'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
Douglas CouplandWhen you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begunโthat "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidaysโwhenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was havingโthat interludeโthe scrambly madnessโall that time I had before?
Douglas Coupland