“What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What one moment from you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway?’’ There is silence. Tobias… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Question: would I do it the same way all over again? Absolutely - because I learned something along the way. Most people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What I will tell you, son of sons, is this: shortly, if not already, you will begin noticing the blackness inside us… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“...one of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments… — 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
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments… — 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
