Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
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'A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.'
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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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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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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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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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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.
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I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M.
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I think about how I think I know a person then 'poof!' I discover I only knew a cartoon version. Suddenly there's this fleshy, demanding, noisy creature in front of me, unknowable and just as lost as I am, and equally unable to remember that every soul in the world is hurting, not just themselves.
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If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
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I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.
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If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
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When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
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If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.
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I hear that God has a really bad haircut.
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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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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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 o'clock 'Pepsi.'
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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
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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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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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We have to count. I want to be part of history. I want a Wikipedia page. I want Google hits. I don’t want to be just a living organism that comes and goes and leaves no trace on this planet.
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If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
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I told Ethan that I speak in an unrestricted manner to animals - things like, aren't you just the cutest little kitty... that kind of thing, which I wouldn't dream of doing to humans. Then I realized I wish I could.