A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes… — 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
My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet… — 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
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 worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable. — 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
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
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'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
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
