It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler. — 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
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth?… — 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
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. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — 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 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 or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It… — 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 Image
