Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you. — 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
You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I find people who prejudge reality TV to be annoying. Art comes from anywhere. Culture can ooze out of any crack. Prejudging… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll… — 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
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight… — 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
