In my mind, I've always checked out in 2037; that's always been my expiration date. I'll be 75. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy;… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You will see the effects of dark secrets making themselves known-- via their minds and bodies and via the stories your friends...will… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It is with these thoughts in mind that I now see the drifter's windburned face when I now consider my world-his face… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar,… — 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
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments… — 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
