Douglas Coupland Quotes

Bradyism: A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in large families…symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a well-defined personal space.

Strangelove Reproduction: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.

Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.

Shopping is Not Creating.

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they’re still getting real food.

Consensus Terrorism: The process that decides in-office attitudes and behavior.