Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the… — 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
