When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one you speak with. I think your writing voice is your laser-guided missile. It's the poetry part of you. Douglas Coupland Poetry
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Douglas Coupland Fear
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return. Douglas Coupland Travel
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room. Douglas Coupland Sports
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. Douglas Coupland Dating
I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there. Douglas Coupland Learning