I think as a species we're not designed to be able to think more than one year into the future - if… — 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
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and… — 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
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and… — 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
Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment… — 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
