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
How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories… — 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
In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth?… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — 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