When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think, there are people for whom freedom is a bigger, more important thing than stability. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it,… — 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
