I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened.
Douglas CouplandYou pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.
Douglas CouplandI really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.
Douglas CouplandYou know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful
Douglas Coupland