I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to use one. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130. — 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'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
When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you waste five minutes of time a day, over the course of a year that adds up to one full work… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you write, it's just a much more crystalline, compressed version of the voice you think with - though not the one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking… — 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 don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — 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
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
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
I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard… — 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
