Douglas CouplandThinkers

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

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

Disney World is Mauschwitz.

Google makes one start to burn out on knowing the answer to everything and makes one nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.

Los Angeles 1s 2nhabitants dress like they've been focus-grouped.

McJob is a low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector.

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

Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.