I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
Douglas CouplandSo much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
Douglas CouplandA man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Douglas CouplandThe only way to the top is killing and greed. Okay, I'm kidding. But killing helps.
Douglas CouplandPost-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard.
Douglas Coupland