Douglas Coupland Quotes
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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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Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
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What surprises me about humanity is that in the end such a narrow range of plights defines our moral lives.
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Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
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I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.
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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.
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Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as a series of events - a story - and when we can’t figure out what our particular story is, we feel lost somehow.
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With 'Worst. Person. Ever.' I knew where it started and where it had to end, but I threw Raymond as many curveballs as I could along the way. He's like the coyote in the 'Road Runner' cartoons.
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By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on with it - which is what I suppose happened with me as much as to anyone else.
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It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California.
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I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.
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Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
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Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
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There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
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The hardest things in the world are being unique and having your life be a story. In the old days, it was much easier, but our modern fame-driven culture, with its real-time 24-7 marinade of electronic information, demands a lot from modern citizens, and poses great obstacles to narrative.
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Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
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We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
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Money is more than a massively consensual IOU note. It is a piece of infrastructure and is as artificial as Interstate 5, NutraSweet or season three of 'Mad Men.'