I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
This was not a good idea coming home for Christmas. I'm too old. Years ago, coming back from schools or trips, I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood,… — 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
