„Loneliness is my curse – our species´ curse – it´s the gun that shoots the bullet that makes us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.“

„I´d never held anyone before. People have weight. They´re warm. You can feel their heart and lungs pumping from within. I don´t know what it was I´d been expecting – a marionette?“

Douglas Coupland, „Eleanor Rigby“