"There is so much you don't know about me--things I haven't told you--for instance, that I do have a family, that I believe there is a God, that I was once a child--and that I have fallen in love twice and that neither time lasted. But how much of this matters in the end if you are alone. What is our memory? What is our history? How much a part of us is the landscape, and how much are we a part of it?"

-douglas coupland, life after god