Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships. — 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
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
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
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
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 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
It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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 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
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life… — 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
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
Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite… — 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
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
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
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
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
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or 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
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
ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother -… — 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
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'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
When I look at my daily schedule, I feel like a trout flopping about on a dock, drowning in the air. Some… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
