I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth?… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — 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