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
Much of what we now consider 'personality' will be explained away as structural and chemical functions of the brain. — 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
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types… — 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
I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain… — 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
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
