@dougcoupland As you obviously know McLuhan said, "Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity."

Twitter: a natural process which partially converts insecure boasting into sarcastic negativity, hollow positivity, or both.

Being alone with one's thoughts seems way cooler when a Murakami character does it.

Werner Herzog on another way to become a filmmaker: "Read, read, read, read, read, read, read. Only those who read own the world."

Want to read a modern Korean novelist? May I suggest Kim Young-ha? My profile of his work in the @lareviewofbooks:  http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1673 …

For what it's worth, my @openculture post today mentions @david_lynch, Brian Eno, AND David Foster Wallace: http://t.co/W0aMU60B

School asks us to work hard on things we don't care about, with the result that some of us never bother to seek out anything we do.

Unhappiness (n.): the delusion that other people, by contrast, have their shit together.

Werner Herzog on how to become a filmmaker: "Walk on foot, learn languages, learn a craft or trade that has nothing to do with cinema."

"If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is." - Reggie Watts

My money's on anyone who doesn't need human nature to change.

"The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction." - Rem Koolhaas

My menswear essay for @putthison covering "Icons of Men's Style", a handbook to midcentury American and British "cool":  http://putthison.com/post/38153635061/colin-marshall-on-menswear-books-icons-of-mens-style …

Most of what we want, we don't articulate. Most of what we articulate, we don't want.

Experience, credentials, intelligence, skill: all fall distantly secondary to whether they just kinda like having you around.

They don't get mad at you; they get mad at the abstraction whose form you momentarily assume.

Exploring the Mexico City literary scene with writer Gabriela Jauregui for the @lareviewofbooks:  http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=1393 

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Begrudge children not their confusion; you'd feel bewildered too if you assumed every adult life around you to be the fruition of a plan.

If each and every one of us wrote a novel, we'd at least learn an important lesson about how we've never paid much attention to anything.