You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. – Doug Coupland
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but its not quite the same thing. – Doug Coupland
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them. – Doug Coupland
Theres 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 worlds probably a better place for it. – Doug Coupland
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke