Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever? — 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
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can… — 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
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on… — 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
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
