Douglas Coupland Quotes
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What is the one thing more than any other thing that makes one person different from any other person?
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It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
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I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.
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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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'We call Jasmine's room 'The Harem,' a sexy place, about which Dan never complained, even though his own possessions, his laptop PC and briefcase, for example, looked crazy in the environment, invasive and overcomplex, like Stealth bombers in SmurfWorld.'
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
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God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
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Emotional Ketchup Burst: The bottling up of opinions and emotions inside onself so that they explosively burst forth all at once, shocking and confusing employers and friends - most of whom thought things were fine.
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In Canada, we're happy to provide a safe haven for next-door neighbors in the middle of a marital dispute. And if anyone trips while crossing the border, we're happy to set their broken bones for free.
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If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
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Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.
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We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
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Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.
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For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves.
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The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity.
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No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.
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It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
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Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.