When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It starts out young - you try not to be different just to survive - you try to be just like everyone… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said,… — 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
