from coupland..

• Once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody 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.
  
• As we age we passionlessly assess what we have and what we lack, and then go about making the best of it, like an actor who goes from playing leads to playing character roles; like a party girl who goes from being a zany kook to being a cautionary tale for the younger girls.

• By twenty-five you know you’re never going to be a rock star, by thirty you know you’re never going to be a dentist, and by forty there are maybe three things left that you can still be - and even then, that’s only if you run as fast as you possibly can to try to catch the train.

• A day in which nothing bad happens is a miracle, a day in which all things that could have gone wrong didn’t. The dull day is a triumph of the human spirit, and boredom is a luxury unprecedented in the history of our species.
  
• If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
  
• Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
  
• New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
  
• Once you see someone lose it, you can never look at them the same way again.