Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. — 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
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals? — 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