We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I would like to fall in love again but my only hope is that love doesn't happen to me so often after… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more… — 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
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — 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
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
Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I… — 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
Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet… — 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
