Knee-Jerk Irony: The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas CouplandHere's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.
Douglas CouplandRemember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas Coupland