Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy… — 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
It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing with bookshelves, no matter how many you have, you always fill them. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty good drawer. I have trouble painting because you literally have to wait for the paint to dry. I'm disciplined,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google… — 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
If you have a great idea, you should be able to communicate it as well. It's like the sound of one hand… — 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
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
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
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
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of… — 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
I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't like telephones: I don't like when they ring. Just because it rings, you have to pick it up. I don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and… — 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
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
Money isn't money anymore. Time doesn't feel like time anymore. Your sense of community, it's evaporated, too, or it's turned into something… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you… — 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
It's fun to sentimentalize the 20th-century lifestyle and the 20th-century brain, but it helps nobody, it makes you look ancient, there's no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write… — 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 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
I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and… — 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
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
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
