Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think way back, the '20s or the '30s, when Kodak came out with the Brownie and they put a list of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said,… — 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
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
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in… — 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
