Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest. All they do is shop and complain. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Nearly all of the Nobodies he saw were men. Women, he thought, had so many more ways to connect themselves to the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I seriously wish that he had spent his entire childhood being serially arse-raped by teachers, scoutmasters, members of the clergy, relatives, policemen,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“And in his heart, I think, he’s now learned what I’ve come to believe, which is, as I’ve said all along, that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that… — 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
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of the pioneers -life after… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As suburban children we floated at night in swimming pools the temperature of blood; pools the color of Earth as seen from… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
