A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman bu

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

Author: Doug Coupland

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I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?

If cats were double the size they are now they'd probably be illegal.

Forget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

The biggest seller is cookbooks, and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.