You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. – Doug Coupland
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other peoples families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. – Doug Coupland
Theres much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the worlds probably a better place for it. – Doug Coupland
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer