Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
Douglas CouplandI find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
Douglas CouplandSo much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
Douglas CouplandIf you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.
Douglas Coupland