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
Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the… — 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
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
I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am,… — 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
I think God is how you deal with everything that's out of your own control. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I think individual people are interesting, not really groups of people. — 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 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 I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years.… — 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
