Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural village - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns back to 'the present.'
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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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'Grandpa, like most of the fun-loving gang who built the Plants, just wanted to die or have his brain turn to oatmeal before it becomes too apparent exactly what a nightmare he and his buddies have saddled their descendants with.'
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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.
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Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
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I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.
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I've never gone on Facebook or MySpace.
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Don’t you get an empty feeling in your soul when you have a blank to-do list?
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Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
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You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.
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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
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People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber.
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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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I hear that God has a really bad haircut.
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There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now.
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If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.
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I tell you what: I give you all of my strength - I seal it inside a little green envelope and mail it to you with hope and peace and much much love. Take all you need and take it quickly.
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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 even like opening mail; I'm weird.
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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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Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.