The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I grew up in airports and on air bases. I know what flying and airports can be. And most airports make me… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if… — 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
