Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
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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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In 2008 we came perilously close to killing money, exposing in the process how out of date money's infrastructure has become.
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I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'
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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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The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
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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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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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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 hear that God has a really bad haircut.
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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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Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
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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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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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Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
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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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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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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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Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs.
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We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.
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The urge to reincarnate while still alive is near universal.
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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 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.