If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — 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
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In… — 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 wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. — 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
