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

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.
Doug Coupland

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.
Doug Coupland

When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
Doug Coupland

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Doug Coupland

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.
Doug Coupland

Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
Doug Coupland

You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
Doug Coupland

You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
Doug Coupland

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
Doug Coupland

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

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

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

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

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

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
Doug Coupland

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.
Doug Coupland