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
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end… — 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
“I once read that for every person currently alive on earth, there are nineteen dead people who have lived before us. That's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a… — 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