“Where does personality end and brain damage begin?” — Douglas Coupland Quote

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

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.

I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.