Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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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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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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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Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.
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Doug's Law: 'You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.'
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Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.
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Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
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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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Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.
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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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Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
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'Ethan, there has to be more to my life than this.''Why can't you just be happy as a shallow cartoon glyph of a human like everybody else here?'
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Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.
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The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.
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Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resumé.
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'What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?''Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.'
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Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
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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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The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.
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Is feeling nothing the inevitable result of believing in nothing? ...I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
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I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.
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Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.
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Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
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I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.