“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Chronotropic Drugs: Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“People don't have dominion over Nature. it's gone beyond that. Human beings and the world are now the same thing. The future… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I believe that what separates humanity from everything else in this world – spaghetti, binder paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss, and Mount McKinley… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers! — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the… — 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
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them. — 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
