Doug Coupland Quotes

Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right.

Your body isn’t just a body. It’s an ecosystem.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

You can’t get mad at weather because weather’s not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

You can’t fake creativity, competence, or s*xual arousal.

With Google I’m starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.

When we constantly ask for miracles, we’re unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they’re going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they’re going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn’t really like people very much?