Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to… — 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
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I like having a beard. My beard changes my face shape and allows me to see in it family members who I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they… — 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
Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Janet, life is just an endless banquet of loss, and each time a new loss is… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But that's what family members are for. We crave them and need them not because we have so many shared experiences to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Just imagine how it must feel to know that your family won't be going to heaven with you- I mean, truly believing… — 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. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — 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 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
