Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
Douglas CouplandVaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Douglas CouplandTry not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
Douglas CouplandIt's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.
Douglas Coupland