Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. – Doug Coupland
If you dont have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you cant expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis. – Doug Coupland
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. – Doug Coupland
Failure is authentic, and because its authentic, its real and genuine, and because of that, its a pure state of being. – Doug Coupland
I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in middle age (unless they are beauties, entertainers or prostitutes) are rather sad, as one should surely have something more substantial to recommend one by this time, such as kindness or cleverness. – Julie Burchill
I think its been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning. – P. J. ORourke