The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
Douglas CouplandYou've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.
Douglas CouplandRemember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas CouplandI thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
Douglas Coupland