Doug Coupland

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

Technology favors horrible people.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

People will always choose more money over more sex.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

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.