Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If money is not maintained, it can collapse like a bridge along Interstate 5 and fixing it, even with determined politicians, will… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
