Douglas Coupland's PLAYER ONE

Quotes:
Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a sequence of events--a story--and when we can't figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.

A good book or song kidnaps your interior voice and does all the driving. With the artist in charge, you're free for a little while to leave your body and be someone else.

Information overload triggered a crisis in the way people saw their lives. It sped up the way we locate, cross-reference, and focus the questions that define our essence, our roles -- our stories. The crux seems to be that our lives stopped being stories. And if we are no longer to have lives that are stories, what will our lives have become?

Lou Andreas-Salome quote

“Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.” ― Lou Andreas-Salomé

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Quotes:

I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

...emotional problems can't be solved as intellectual problems are.

I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.

How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?