"Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool."
— Tom Robbins

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everyone goes "awww!""
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

"TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public."
— Douglas Coupland (JPod)

""And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened." "
— Douglas Coupland

"We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die."
— Douglas Coupland

"Adventure without risk is Disneyland"
— Douglas Coupland

"In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama and torrid sex and the clash of opposites. Give me banter any day of the week. "
— Douglas Coupland

"I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one."
— Douglas Coupland (Life After God)

"...blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "
— Douglas Coupland (All Families Are Psychotic)

"When You Are Old"


WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars."
— William Butler Yeats

"What can be explained is not poetry."
— William Butler Yeats

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
— William Butler Yeats

"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
— John Lennon

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."
— Tom Robbins

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
— Tom Robbins

"A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised."
— Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)

"We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
— Tom Robbins

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
— Jack Kerouac

"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)