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
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a… — 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
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
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
The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research… — 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
I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I… — 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
