Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
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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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What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
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We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
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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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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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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.
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We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.
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The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them.
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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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I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere - sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
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We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.
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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers.
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
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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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The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.
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Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.
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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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In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
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I hear that God has a really bad haircut.