Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. — 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
