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
I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't… — 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 can't switch time zones any more. London is one of my favourite places, but I'm always so zonked that I can't… — 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
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google… — 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
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
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94,… — 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
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — 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 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
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to… — 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
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — 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
Soon it won't be the Internet any more, it'll just be like air, like somehow they'll integrate the Internet into the air.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — 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
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
