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
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
TV is all about hair. And then skin. And then clothing. And then it's about your voice. And finally the report, what… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for… — 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
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am,… — 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
