"... sometimes I wonder if it is too late to feel the same things that other people seem to be feeling. Sometimes I want to go up to people and say to them, 'What is it you are feeling that I am not? Please - that's all I want to know.' Perhaps you think I simply need to fall in love and that maybe I've just never met the right person. Or perhaps I've just never figured out exactly what it was I wanted to do with life while the clock ticked away. Whatever."

(Douglas Coupland: Life After God, New York 1994, S. 311)