Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I tend to look for pathologies everywhere.
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I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little happy hit.
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Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
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Comics day came and went. Another shoes day came and went. And another comics day followed that - the typical production and consumption cycles that help us survice our dismal, meaningless little lives.
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When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is a list of the symptoms, and don't worry - loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact - loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.
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If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
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We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
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I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
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Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.
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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long.
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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
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I thought that intimacy with another soul was the closest I could ever come to leaving my body.
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Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
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All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
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We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.