Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As the expression goes, we spend our youth attaining wealth, and our wealth attaining youth. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“And for a while they were happy in their own manner; they had the animal confidence money affords.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Question: would I do it the same way all over again? Absolutely - because I learned something along the way. Most people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
