Splinters

Nerve interviews Douglas Coupland about his new book Eleanor Rigby and much of the conversation concerns loneliness: "Well, everyone is lonely. I don't really feel alienated, but I used to be terrifyingly lonely in my twenties and it just completely, totally, utterly fucked me up. I think thirty to thirty-five are the best years because as you get older, you still feel loneliness, but you know what it is, and you know it'll go away. It's like bruising your leg — it doesn't have the power to terrify you anymore."

Doug said the same thing more concisely to spike several years ago: "Your 20s are muck and shit and pain and loneliness and horror".

I should put that on a t-shirt.